Distribution-free tests for sparse heterogeneous mixtures

DOI10.1007/s11749-016-0499-xzbMath1422.62159arXiv1308.0346OpenAlexW1781020620MaRDI QIDQ2398079

Meng Wang, Ery Arias-Castro

Publication date: 15 August 2017

Published in: Test (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0346

zbMATH Keywords

higher criticismdistribution-free testsAnderson-Darling testmixture detectionSmirnov test for symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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