A simple test of symmetry about an unknown median

DOI10.2307/3315744zbMath0863.62040MaRDI QIDQ5691192

Joe Masaro, Paul Cabilio

Publication date: 3 June 1997

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

asymmetry; Monte Carlo; critical values; skewness; calibration distribution; testing symmetry; deviations from sample median; robustness of significance level; variance of influence curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62G35: Nonparametric robustness

65C05: Monte Carlo methods

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