Goodness-of-fit tests for the inverse Gaussian and related distributions

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 271-290

  Ducharme, Gilles R ^a,b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Lab de Probabilités et Stat   (France)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling's test; Goodness of fit test; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Moment; Random walk distribution; Schwarz criterion; Score test; Smooth test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347771991     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02595697     Document Type: Article

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