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On a Three-Sample Test

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Athens Conference on Applied Probability and Time Series Analysis

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics ((LNS,volume 114))

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In 1958 H.T. David defined a statistic for testing the hypothesis that three samples of equal size n are drawn from the same continuous distribution. In this paper explicit formulas are given for the distribution and the asymptotic distribution of this statistic.

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  1. Case Western Reserve University, 2410 Newbury Drive, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 44118, USA

    Lajos Takács

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  1. Stochastic Analysis Program, SMS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    C. C. Heyde

  2. Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute, Vavilov Street 42, Moscow, 333, Russia

    Yu V. Prohorov

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Ronald Pyke

  4. Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    S. T. Rachev

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Takács, L. (1996). On a Three-Sample Test. In: Heyde, C.C., Prohorov, Y.V., Pyke, R., Rachev, S.T. (eds) Athens Conference on Applied Probability and Time Series Analysis. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 114. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0749-8_31

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