Percentage points for directional Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit tests

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 523-532

  Crown, John S ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling; Directional testing; Exponentiality testing; Goodness of fit; Monte Carlo simulation; Normality testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444440594     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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