Overweight tails are inefficient

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176348397MaRDI QIDQ1184239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard A. Lockhart

Publication date 28 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348397

zbMATH Keywords

Kolmogorov-Smirnov statisticgoodness-of-fit testsprobability plotsexponential tailscorrelation coefficientcontiguous alternativecorrelation teststail order statisticstests of asymptotic relative efficiencyvariance weighted Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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