Statistical inference for a linear function of medians: Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and sample size requirements

Psychological Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 370-383

  Bonett, Douglas G ^a   Price, Robert M ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 85047669320     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.7.3.370     Document Type: Article

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