Nonparametric simultaneous tests for location and scale testing: A comparison of several methods

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1298-1317

  Marozzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonparametric Testing; Rank Testing; Robustness; The Location Scale Problem

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; NONPARAMETRIC TESTING; PARAMETRIC TEST; SIMULATION STUDIES; THE LOCATION-SCALE PROBLEM;

BIOINFORMATICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

TESTING;

EID: 84876122740     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2012.665546     Document Type: Article

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