Comprehensive study of tests for normality and symmetry: extending the Spiegelhalter test

DOI10.1080/10629360500109023zbMath1108.62042MaRDI QIDQ5485078

Patrick J. Farrell, Katrina Rogers-Stewart

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/10.1080/10629360500109023

zbMATH Keywords

power; kurtosis; skewness; significance level; triples tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

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