A simulation study was performed to compare three statistical tests with respect to their performances in the two-sample location problem for contaminated normal distributions. The three tests were: the t-test, the rank-transformed t-test, and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. The results showed the t-tes
Power of Some Tests for Umbrella Alternatives in the Multi-Sample Location Problem
✍ Scribed by Herbert Büning; Wolfgang Kössler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 636 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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