Tests of fit for the Rayleigh distribution based on the empirical Laplace transform

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-151

  Meintanis, Simos ^a   Iliopoulos, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Empirical Laplace transform; Goodness of fit test; Rayleigh distribution; Smooth test

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 12444257706     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024638915494     Document Type: Article

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