Invariant tests for symmetry about an unspecified point based on the empirical characteristic function.

DOI10.1016/S0047-259X(03)00044-7zbMath1040.62047OpenAlexW2079231066WikidataQ60430081 ScholiaQ60430081MaRDI QIDQ1426348

Norbert Henze, Simos G. Meintanis, Bernhard Klar

Publication date: 14 March 2004

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0047-259x(03)00044-7

zbMATH Keywords

Empirical characteristic functionAffine invarianceMardia's measure of multivariate skewnessPermutational limit theoremSkewness in the sense of Móri, Rohatgi and SzékelyTest for symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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