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Document Type

Article

Abstract

To counter past assertions that permutation testing is not distribution-free, this article clarifies that the critical p value (alpha) in permutation testing is not a Type I error rate and that a test's validity is independent of the concept of Type I error.

Publisher's Statement

Material in this article is copyrighted and initially published by JMASM in vol. 12, 2013. JMASM retains the copyright for this work for the entire usual period.

Publication Date

5-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Start Page No.

2

End Page No.

8

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