Goodness-of-fit tests based on a robust measure of skewness

Computational Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-442

  Brys, Guy ^a   Hubert, Mia ^b   Struyf, Anja ^c  

^a FPS Economy   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Jarque Bera test; Robustness; Tail weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749119927     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-007-0083-7     Document Type: Article

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