Testing for central symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2015.07.006zbMATH Open1328.62264OpenAlexW2214202412MaRDI QIDQ900764FDOQ900764

Authors: John H. J. Einmahl, Zhuojiong Gan 

Publication date: 22 December 2015

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2015.07.006

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zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testsymmetryempirical processexchangeabilitydistribution-free

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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• Comparison of tests for bivariate symmetry versus location and/or scale alternatives
• Testing the equality and exchangeability of bivariate distributions
• Some hypothesis tests based on random projection
• Testing circular symmetry
• More good news on the HKM test for multivariate reflected symmetry about an unknown centre
• A nonparametric test for symmetry based on Freeman and Halton's ideas on contingency tables
• On the `triples test' for symmetry
• Testing for central dominance: method and application
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