The Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit test statistic for the three-parameter lognormal distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3135-3143

  Tolikas, Konstantinos ^a   Heravi, Saeed ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling goodness of fit test; L moments; Probability weighted moments; Three parameter lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONTROL THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TESTING;

ANDERSON; ANDERSON-DARLING GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; CRITICAL VALUES; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTING; L-MOMENTS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; LOWER BOUNDS; PERCENT AGE POINTS; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SAMPLE DATA; SAMPLE SIZES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; THREE-PARAMETER LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; UPPER BOUNDS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 49649100817     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802101571     Document Type: Article

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