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Refined approximations to permutation tests for multivariate inference. (English) Zbl 0875.62183
Summary: Various authors have proposed approximations to permutation tests of independence between two data tables. We develop approximations based on explicit expressions of the first three moments of three different test statistics under the permutation distribution. The rejection level is then determined by using a Pearson-type III distribution matching the values of the first three moments. We present three examples in which the relative merits of the test statistics are examined and the results of the approximation procedure are compared with explicit permutation tests.

##### MSC:
 62G10 Nonparametric hypothesis testing 62H15 Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis
SAS; Canoco
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