A tool for systematically comparing the power of tests for normality

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 623-638

  Breton, Marc D ^a   Devore, Michael D ^a   Brown, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison of powers; Goodness of fit test; Graphical representation; Johnson distributions; Skewness kurtosis plane; Test for normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749112058     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650701377984     Document Type: Article

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