Beyond Q-Q plots: some new graphical tools for the assessment of distributional assumptions and the tail behavior of the data

DOI10.1080/15598608.2017.1299057MaRDI QIDQ2321795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valmira Hoxhaj, Ravindra Khattree

Publication date 23 August 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/15598608.2017.1299057

zbMATH Keywords

tail behaviorarc lengthgeometric curvatureAndrews plotarea of surface of revolutiongraphical testingKhattree-Naik curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09)

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