On comparing the accuracy of competing tests of the same hypotheses from simulation data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 497-508

  Lloyd, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mann Whitney statistic; Receiver operating characteristic curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644235092     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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