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Original Articles

Performance of confidence interval tests for the ratio of two lognormal means applied to Weibull and gamma distribution data

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Pages 1035-1054 | Received 19 Oct 2010, Accepted 25 Feb 2011, Published online: 27 Jun 2011

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