Testing normality using kernel methods

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-288

  Ahmad, Ibrahim A ^a   Mugdadi, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Southern Illinois University Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bandwidth selection; Independence; Kernel contrasts; Kernel methods; Monte Carlo methods; Power of tests; Testing normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037633668     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1048525021000049649     Document Type: Article

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