Testing for scale families using total variation distance

DOI10.1080/10629360500282080zbMath1111.62019MaRDI QIDQ5485076

Jie Mi, Sneh Gulati

Publication date: 28 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10629360500282080

zbMATH Keywords

total variation; goodness-of-fit; gamma distribution; Weibull distribution; scale families

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62F03: Parametric hypothesis testing

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

62N03: Testing in survival analysis and censored data

62F05: Asymptotic properties of parametric tests

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