Goodness-of-fit tests for the Cauchy distribution based on the empirical characteristic function

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 267-286

  Gürtler, Nora ^a   Henze, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cauchy distribution; Empirical characteristic function; Goodness of fit test; Kernel transformed empirical process; Stable distribution; Uniformly most powerful invariant test

Indexed keywords

EID: 6744262251     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004113805623     Document Type: Article

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