A test of goodness-of-fit based on Gini's index of spacings

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-187

  Jammalamadaka, S Rao ^a   Goria, M N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directional data; Gini index; Goodness of fit tests; Order statistics; Spacings

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542503459     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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