Recent and classical tests for exponentiality: a partial review with comparisons

DOI10.1007/s001840400322zbMath1062.62076OpenAlexW1980258964MaRDI QIDQ1774618

Simos G. Meintanis, Norbert Henze

Publication date: 17 May 2005

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840400322

zbMATH Keywords

entropyexponential distributionmean residual life functionempirical characteristic functionempirical distribution functionGoodness-of-fit testempirical Laplace transformintegrated empirical distribution function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03)

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