Bootstrap goodness-of-fit tests with estimated parameters based on empirical transforms

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1004-1013

  Meintanis, Simos ^a   Swanepoel, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Consistency; Empirical characteristic function; Empirical Laplace transform; Empirical probability generating function

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247102680     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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