On mode testing and empirical approximations to distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-254

  Cheng, Ming Yen ^a   Hall, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandwidth test; Concave majorant; Convex minorant; Density estimation; Dip test; Excess mass test; Local alternative hypothesis; Order constraints; Unimodal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032528708     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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