Goodness-of-fit tests for additively closed count models with an application to the generalized Hermite distribution

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 538-552

  Meintanis, Simos ^a   Bassiakos, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bootstrap test; Empirical probability generating function; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645461653     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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