Tests of goodness of fit based on the L2-Wasserstein distance

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1230-1239

  Del Barrio, Eustasio ^a   Cuesta Albertos, Juan A ^b   Matrán, Carlos ^a   Rodríguez Rodríguez, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge; Convergence of integrals; Correlation test; Goodness of fit; Quantile process; Shapiro Wilk; Test of normality; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033177319     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1017938923     Document Type: Article

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