Goodness-of-fit tests based on a new characterization of the exponential distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1479-1497

  Henze, Norbert ^a   Meintanis, Simos G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Characteristic function; Characterization of exponentiality; Empirical characteristic function; Goodness of fit test; Smooth test; Test for exponentiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244431749     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120013007     Document Type: Article

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