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Barnard's Monte Carlo Tests: How Many Simulations?
Author(s) -
Marriott F. H. C.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2346816
Subject(s) - monte carlo method , statistical physics , mathematics , statistics , physics
Summary The Monte Carlo test proposed by Barnard, often used in investigating spatial distributions, gives a “blurred” critical region, in which values of the test statistic have a certain probability of being judged significant. The effect of increasing the number of simulations on this blurring is investigated.