A simple test of symmetry about an unknown median

DOI10.2307/3315744zbMATH Open0863.62040OpenAlexW2018736256MaRDI QIDQ5691192FDOQ5691192

Publication date: 3 June 1997

Published in: The Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315744

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Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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