Goodness-of-fit tests for symmetric stable distributions-Empirical characteristic function approach

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Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 546-566

  Matsui, Muneya ^a   Takemura, Akimichi ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit tests; Integral equations; Maximum likelihood estimator; Stable distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649165099     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-007-0045-y     Document Type: Article

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