Testing for central symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2015.07.006MaRDI QIDQ900764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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• Testing for central dominance: method and application
• Testing axial symmetry by means of integrated rank scores
• Comparison of tests for bivariate symmetry versus location and/or scale alternatives
• More good news on the HKM test for multivariate reflected symmetry about an unknown centre

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