A maximally selected test of symmetry about zero

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 3178-3191

  Laska, Eugene ^a,b   Meisner, Morris ^a   Wanderling, Joseph ^a  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraising safety absent norms; Generalized sign test; Maximally selected McNemar; On road driving study; Test of symmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MCNEMAR TEST; MOTIVATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SIGN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOMARKERS, PHARMACOLOGICAL; BIOSTATISTICS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84867504718     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5384     Document Type: Article

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