Assessing the similarity of distributions - Finite sample performance of the empirical Mallows distance

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 319-346

  Czado, Claudia ^a   Munk, Axel ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Mallows distance; Model validation; Population bioequivalence; Scientific relevant difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032223376     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811895     Document Type: Article

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