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A Useful Property of Some Symmetric Statistics |
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| Authors: | Timothy C. Brown Geoffrey K. Eagleson |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mathematics , Monash University , Clayton, Victoria , 3168 , Australia;2. CSIRO, Division of Mathematics and Statistics , Lindfield, New South Wales , 2070 , Australia |
| Abstract: | The distributions of some statistics arising from the comparison of two populations share a common structure. Consequences of this structure are derived and their usefulness indicated. The examples of statistics to which the theory applies include various correlation coefficients. |
| Keywords: | Independence Pairwise independence Correlations |