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Asymptotic Expansions of the Null Distributions of Discrepancy Functions for General Covariance Structures Under Nonnormality

Haruhiko OgasawaraDepartment of Information and Management ScienceOtaru University of CommerceOtaru, 047-8501, [email protected]
Pages 385-422 | Published online: 06 Aug 2013

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