Comparing two independent groups via the lower and upper quantiles

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1543-1551

  Wilcox, Rand R ^a   Erceg Hurn, David M ^b   Clark, Florence ^a   Carlson, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

bootstrap methods; Doksum Sievers method; Harrell Davis estimator; tied values; Well Elderly study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899415379     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2012.754026     Document Type: Article

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