Sum-functions of spacings of increasing order

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2535-2546

  Ekström, Magnus ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

mixing and symbol mixing sequence; divergence; High order spacings; Testing uniformity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645897045     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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