Testing multinormality based on low-dimensional projection

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-141

  Liang, Jiajuan ^a   Li, Runze ^b   Fang, Hongbin ^c   Fang, Kai Tai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

62E25; 62G10; 62H15; Left spherical matrix distributions; Mardia's skewness and kurtosis; Projection tests; Testing multinormality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000835483     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00168-8     Document Type: Article

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