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Bootstrap Estimation and Testing for Variance Equality.
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Olejnik, Stephen; Algina, James – 1987
The purpose of this study was to develop a single procedure for comparing population variances which could be used for distribution forms. Bootstrap methodology was used to estimate the variability of the sample variance statistic when the population distribution was normal, platykurtic and leptokurtic. The data for the study were generated and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics), Measurement Techniques, Monte Carlo Methods