A new approach to the BHEP tests for multivariate normality

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-23

  Henze, Norbert ^a   Wagner, Thorsten ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Test for multivariate normality; empirical characteristic function; Gaussian process; contiguous alternatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031185197     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1997.1684     Document Type: Article

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