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A Two Sample Test for Mean Vectors with Unequal Covariance Matrices

Tamae KawasakiDepartment of Mathematical Information Science, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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Takashi SeoDepartment of Mathematical Information Science, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1850-1866 | Received 06 Dec 2012, Accepted 09 Jul 2013, Published online: 09 Apr 2015

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