This article studies the effect that serial correlation of the observations has on the distribution of the mean and two one-sample nonparametric tests, the sign test and the Wilcoxon test. It is shown that relatively slight dependence has a strong influence on the level of these tests.
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Gastwirth et al. (1971) studied this question.
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