On distributional properties and goodness-of-fit tests for generalized measures of divergence

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 472-482

  Karagrigoriou, A ^a   Mattheou, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Csisz r's measure of divergence; Generalized measures of divergence; Goodness of fit test

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSISTENT ESTIMATORS; DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTY; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; MULTINOMIALS; SAMPLING PROPERTIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 74549139132     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920903140239     Document Type: Article

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