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J J Fernández-Durán1, M M Gregorio-Domínguez2

  • 1Department of Statistics and School of Business, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Río Hondo No. 1, Col. Progreso Tizapán, México jfdez@itam.mx.

Statistical Methods in Medical Research
|August 19, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
Likelihood ratio testsnon-negative Fourier seriesuniformity

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