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Informational energy test for equality of variances

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Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94 (IPMU 1994)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 945))

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Abstract

On the basis of the informational energy an alternative test of homogeneity of variances in samples from normal populations is developed. In addition, several of the more well known statistics for performing this type of analysis and the new test proposed here are compared in a Monte Carlo study.

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  1. Departamento de Estadística e I.O., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    J. A. Pardo, M. C. Pardo, M. L. Vicente & M. D. Esteban

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  1. J. A. Pardo
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Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier Ronald R. Yager Lotfi A. Zadeh

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Pardo, J.A., Pardo, M.C., Vicente, M.L., Esteban, M.D. (1995). Informational energy test for equality of variances. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94. IPMU 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035956

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