The Multi-Sample Block-Scalar Sphericity Test: Exact and Near-Exact Distributions for Its Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic

DOI10.1080/03610926.2012.704542zbMath1347.62079OpenAlexW2154304845MaRDI QIDQ4929179

Carlos A. Coelho, Filipe J. Marques

Publication date: 13 June 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2012.704542

zbMATH Keywords

mixturesgeneralized integer gamma distributiongeneralized near-integer gamma distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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