Some necessary uniform tests for spherical symmetry

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 679-696

  Liang, Jiajuan ^a   Fang, Kai Tai ^b   Hickernell, Fred J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Monte Carlo study; Spherical symmetry; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

EMPIRICAL PROCESSES; GOODNESS-OF-FIT; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRALS; LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; SPHERICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERICAL SYMMETRY; STATISTICAL MODELLING; TYPE-I ERROR; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION; UNIFORMITY; UNIVARIATE;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 49149106909     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-007-0121-9     Document Type: Article

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