Improving the accuracy of goodness-of-fit tests based on Rao's divergence with small sample size

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 339-351

  Pardo, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exact power; Goodness of fit; R divergence; Randomized test; Second order distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GOODNESS OF FIT;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0039390161     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)90131-1     Document Type: Article

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