The Best Test of Exponentiality against Singly Truncated Normal Alternatives

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 446, 1999, Pages 529-532

  del Castillo, Joan ^a   Puig, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exponential distribution; Greenwood's statistic; Saddlepoint approximation; Singly truncated normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542637724     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10474147     Document Type: Article

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