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Peer reviewedBajgier, Steve M.; Aggarwal, Lalit K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
Ignorance of the characteristics of a mixed population may lead to bias in a summary measure of a phenomenon. A test based on sample kurtosis is demonstrated by a simulation study to be more powerful than six other known tests in detecting a class of mixed normal distributions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Equations (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit
