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

DOI10.1080/03610928308828643MaRDI QIDQ3324820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

asymptotic significance levelBahadur efficiencycovariance kernelCramér-von Mises type statisticsefficiency comparisonempirical distribution functionsgoodness-of-fitKolmogorov-Smirnovlikelihood ratio testlinear rank statisticsmodified Wilcoxon statistictesting symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10)

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