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The effect of departures from ideal conditions other than non-normality on the t and z tests of significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. E. Daniels
Affiliation:
Clare College

Extract

It is shown that slight departures from independence and equal weight of the sample observations introduce a bias into Fisher's z, but that the distributions of the variances “within and between groups”, and of Fisher's z would appear to maintain their form to the first order, although the extent to which the approximations hold in practice has not been considered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1938

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