Empirical likelihood ratios applied to goodness-of-fit tests based on sample entropy

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 531-545

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Gurevich, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SAMI SHAMOON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA EXAMPLES; DENSITY-BASED; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD; ENTROPY ESTIMATOR; GOODNESS OF FIT; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LIKELIHOOD TECHNIQUE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SAMPLE ENTROPY; STATISTICAL LITERATURE; STATISTICAL TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ENTROPY; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 70350574708     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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