Asymptotics of goodness-of-fit tests based on minimum p-value statistics

DOI10.1080/03610926.2015.1041985zbMath1364.62106OpenAlexW2320640026MaRDI QIDQ2978997

Veronika Gontscharuk, Helmut Finner

Publication date: 2 May 2017

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2015.1041985

zbMATH Keywords

order statisticsgoodness-of-fithigher criticismKolmogorov-Smirnov testequal local levelsminimum level attained

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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