Tests for symmetry about an unknown value based on the empirical distribution function

DOI10.1080/03610928308828643zbMath0538.62018MaRDI QIDQ3324820

James A. Koziol

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928308828643

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood ratio test; goodness-of-fit; Bahadur efficiency; empirical distribution functions; efficiency comparison; Kolmogorov-Smirnov; testing symmetry; linear rank statistics; asymptotic significance level; covariance kernel; Cramér-von Mises type statistics; modified Wilcoxon statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62F03: Parametric hypothesis testing

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