A Uniform Saddlepoint Expansion for the Null-Distribution of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Statistic

DOI10.2307/3315887zbMath1066.62507OpenAlexW4248328957MaRDI QIDQ4506099

Sorana M. Froda, van Eeden, Constance

Publication date: 2000

Published in: The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315887

zbMATH Keywords

rates of convergenceAsymptotic expansionsWilcoxon-Mann-Whitney null-distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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