A Useful Property of Some Symmetric Statistics
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 38 (1) , 63-65
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1984.10482877
Abstract
The distributions of some statistics arising from the comparison of two populations share a common structure. Consequences of this structure are derived and their usefulness indicated. The examples of statistics to which the theory applies include various correlation coefficients.Keywords
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