Paul W. Mielke

Application of Multi-Response Permutation Procedures for Examining Seasonal Changes in Monthly Mean Sea-Level Pressure Patterns

This paper considers the examination of possible differences in monthly sea-level pressure patterns, The satisfactory examination of such differences requires appropriate multi-...

Goodman and Kruskal's TAU-B Statistic

Goodman and Kruskal's T b statistic is frequently employed by sociologists to measure association among categorical polytomies. The test of the null hypothesis T b = 0 is presen...

On asymptotic non-normality of null distributions of mrpp statistics

Severe departures from normality occur frequently for null distributions of statistics associated with applications of mulLi-response permutation procedures (MRPP) for either sm...

Non-asymptotic inferences based on the chi-square statistic for r by c contingency tables