A goodness-of-fit test for exponentiality based on the memoryless property

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 681-689

  Ahmad, Ibrahim A ^a   Alwasel, Ibrahim A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Critical values; Goodness of fit tests; Limiting distribution; Monte Carlo methods; Power of tests; Testing exponentiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012493812     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00200     Document Type: Article

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