Default Bayesian goodness-of-fit testsfor the skew-normal model

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-232

  Cabras, S ^a   Castellanos, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

EDF test; Model checking; P values; Power; Prior predictive distribution; Size of test

Indexed keywords

EID: 57949105147     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802443988     Document Type: Article

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