Nonparametric estimation of an affinity measure between two absolutely continuous distributions with hypotheses testing applications

DOI10.1007/BF02480327zbMath0453.62033MaRDI QIDQ1149209

Ibrahim A. Ahmad

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry; goodness of fit; kernel estimates of density; measure of affinity; testing equality of distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

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