Tests of fit for the three-parameter lognormal distribution

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1418-1440

  Chen, Colin ^a  

^a SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

EDF Statistics; Empirical distribution function; Goodness of fit; Local maximum likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DATA REDUCTION; POLYNOMIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EDF STATISTICS; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; LOCAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 27744461187     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.01.012     Document Type: Article

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