Two modified Wilcoxon tests for symmetry about an unknown location parameter

DOI10.1093/biomet/69.2.377zbMath0509.62037OpenAlexW2057805625MaRDI QIDQ4747390

Joseph L. Gastwirth, A. Larry Wright, P. K. Bhattacharya

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a59224784d777713c48eb23a722f0a73f50a4f90

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticscontaminationPitman efficienciesmodified Wilcoxon test for symmetry about sample medianMonte Carlo comparison of testsrobustness of leveltwo- sample linear rank statisticsunknown location parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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