Data driven chi-square test for uniformity with unequal cells

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 545-561

  Inglot, Tadeusz ^a,b   Janic Wróblewska, Alicja ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chi square test; Goodness of fit; MDL criterion; Monte Carlo simulations; Selection rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 30244483509     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965021000060918     Document Type: Article

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