On the null distributions of the entropy tests for the gaussian and inverse gaussian models

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 1507-1520

  Mudholkar, Govind S ^a   Tian, Lili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy; Normality; Vasicek test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744883392     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100105681     Document Type: Article

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