General treatment of goodness-of-fit tests based on Kullback–Leibler information

DOI10.1080/00949655.2012.667100zbMath1453.62469OpenAlexW1991679959MaRDI QIDQ5218887

Naserreza Arghami, Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi

Publication date: 6 March 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2012.667100

zbMATH Keywords

entropygoodness-of-fit testsKullback-Leibler informationWeibull distributionLaplace distributionuniform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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