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A group sequential test for the inverse Gaussian mean

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The present paper deals with the development of a group sequential test when response variable has an inverse Gaussian distribution with known scale parameter.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, 06532, Ankara, Turkey

    Sevil Bacanli & Yaprak Parlak Demirhan

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Bacanli, S., Demirhan, Y.P. A group sequential test for the inverse Gaussian mean. Statistical Papers 49, 377–386 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-006-0020-9

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