Confidence Bands for Quantile Functions: A Parametric and Graphic Alternative for Testing Goodness of Fit

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-190

  Rosenkrantz, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex confidence sets; Normal probability plots; Simultaneous confidence intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367503     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474543     Document Type: Article

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