Improved power in multinomial goodness-of-fit tests

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 381-393

  Basu, Ayanendranath ^a   Ray, Surajit ^b   Park, Chanseok ^c   Basu, Srabashi ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Penn State University ^*

Author keywords

Disparities; Empty cell penalty; Goodness of fit; Power divergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484151     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00325     Document Type: Article

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