The distribution of a lagrange multiplier test of normality

Economics Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-130

  Partha, Deb ^a   Sefton, Martin ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Normality; Specification testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042635630     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00784-9     Document Type: Article

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