Large deviation approximations for the Mann-Whitney statistic and the Jonckheere-Terpstra statistic

DOI10.1080/10485252.2013.816701MaRDI QIDQ2863055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cyrille Joutard

Publication date 21 November 2013

Published in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/10485252.2013.816701

zbMATH Keywords

Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney teststrong large deviationsJonckheere-Terpstra test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Large deviations (60F10) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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