The probability weighted characteristic function and goodness-of-fit testing

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2013.09.011zbMath1279.62107OpenAlexW2087173230MaRDI QIDQ393600

J. S. Allison, Simos G. Meintanis, Jan W. H. Swanepoel

Publication date: 23 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2013.09.011

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic functionsempirical characteristic functionsexponential distributiondnormal distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10)

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