The effect of kurtosis on the power of two test statistics in covariance structure analysis

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Foldnes, Njål ^a   Olsson, Ulf Henning ^a   Foss, Tron ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

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ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84855720984     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: 20448317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8317.2010.02010.x     Document Type: Article

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