A goodness-of-git test for the gumbel distribution based on Kullback-Leibler information

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 842-855

  Pérez Rodríguez, Paulino ^a   Vaquera Huerta, Humberto ^a   Villaseñor Alva, José A ^a  

^a Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Entropy; Monte Carlo simulation; Test power

Indexed keywords

CHANDRA; CRITICAL VALUE; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION METHODOLOGY; KULLBACK-LEIBLER; KULLBACK-LEIBLER INFORMATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

TESTING;

EID: 77649287079     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802316658     Document Type: Article

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