Testing k-monotonicity of a discrete distribution. Application to the estimation of the number of classes in a population

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2018.02.006zbMATH Open1469.62068arXiv1708.08676OpenAlexW2963296238MaRDI QIDQ1663112FDOQ1663112

Authors: Jade Giguelay, Sylvie Huet 

Publication date: 21 August 2018

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop here several goodness-of-fit tests for testing the k-monotonicity of a discrete density, based on the empirical distribution of the observations. Our tests are non-parametric, easy to implement and are proved to be asymptotically of the desired level and consistent. We propose an estimator of the degree of k-monotonicity of the distribution based on the non-parametric goodness-of-fit tests. We apply our work to the estimation of the total number of classes in a population. A large simulation study allows to assess the performances of our procedures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08676

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zbMATH Keywords

goodness-of-fit testmodel estimationdiscrete \(k\)-monotone distributionestimation of the number of classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Density estimation (62G07)

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Uses Software

• logcondiscr

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