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Original Articles

Performance of nonparametric multiple comparison tests under heteroscedasticity, dependency, and skewed error distribution

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Pages 5166-5183 | Received 26 Aug 2015, Accepted 19 Jan 2016, Published online: 28 Feb 2017

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