Comparing several robust tests of stochastic equality with ordinally scaled variables and small to moderate sized samples

Psychological Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 485-503

  Delaney, Harold D ^b   Vargha, András ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 85047670382     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.7.4.485     Document Type: Article

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