Robust means modeling: An alternative for hypothesis testing of independent means under variance heterogeneity and nonnormality

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-156

  Fan, Weihua ^a   Hancock, Gregory R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

hypothesis testing of mean equality; nonnormality; robust means modeling; variance heterogeneity; Welch statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856566741     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998610396897     Document Type: Review

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