Goodness-of-fit tests based on Kullback-Leibler information

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 357-361

  Şenoǧlu, Birdal ^a   Sürücü, Bariş ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SPACINGS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 4544374646     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.833319     Document Type: Article

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