The dip test of unimodality

DOI10.1214/aos/1176346577zbMath0575.62045OpenAlexW1997817740WikidataQ55894425 ScholiaQ55894425MaRDI QIDQ1063974

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346577

zbMATH Keywords

isotonic regression empirical distribution multimodality dip test unimodal distribution asymptotically least favorable unimodal distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Asymptotic properties of parametric tests (62F05)

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