Sheffer polynomials for computing exact Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Renyi type distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345574zbMath0494.62019MaRDI QIDQ1169213

Heinrich Niederhausen

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345574

zbMATH Keywords

algorithms; order statistics; difference equations; Sheffer polynomials; two-sided tests; representation theorems; finite operator calculus; Sheffer sequences; empirical distribution; recursions; Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics; closed forms; Renyi type distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

62G30: Order statistics; empirical distribution functions

05A15: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions

65C30: Numerical solutions to stochastic differential and integral equations

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