On the small sample properties of variants of Mardia’s and Srivastava’s kurtosis-based tests for multivariate normality
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bile-2013-0012 | Journal eISSN: 2199-577X (formerly 1896-3811) | Journal ISSN: 1896-3811
Language: English
Page range: 159 - 175
Published on: Aug 17, 2013
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