A new estimator of entropy and its application in testing normality

DOI10.1080/00949650903005656zbMath1270.62021MaRDI QIDQ3012688

Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi

Publication date: 6 July 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949650903005656

zbMATH Keywords

information theory; test power; test of normality; entropy estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62B10: Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics

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