An empirical power comparison of univariate goodness-of-fit tests for normality

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 545-591

  Romão, Xavier ^a   Delgado, Raimundo ^a   Costa, Aníbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Normal distribution; Normality test; Power comparison; Univariate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951180564     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650902740824     Document Type: Article

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