Testing for spherical symmetry of a multivariate distribution

DOI10.1214/aos/1176348127zbMath0725.62053OpenAlexW2053025491MaRDI QIDQ2277714

Ludwig Baringhaus

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176348127

zbMATH Keywords

consistencydistribution-freefixed alternativeGegenbauer polyomialshypothesis of spherical symmetryinvariant tests of spherical symmetryRotationally invariant teststest statistics of von Mises type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45)

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