The small sample distribution of a Mann-Whitney type statistic for circular data

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344626zbMath0414.62036OpenAlexW1997726376MaRDI QIDQ599460

W. J. R. Eplett

Publication date: 1979

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344626

zbMATH Keywords

small sample distributioncircular distributionsKolmogorov Smirnov statisticsMann-Whitney test statisticnull distributionordered samplesrecurrence formulaeunion-intersection method of test construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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