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On the Asymptotic Normality of Test Statistics Using Song's Kurtosis

Rie Enomoto Department of Mathematical Information Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Naoya Okamoto Department of Food Sciences, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo Seiei College, Tokyo, Japan
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Takashi Seo Department of Mathematical Information Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Pages 107-119 | Received 21 Jun 2012, Accepted 21 Oct 2012, Published online: 25 Feb 2013

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