Assessing when a sample is mostly normal

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2914-2925

  Alvarez Esteban, Pedro C ^a   Del Barrio, Eustasio ^a   Cuesta Albertos, Juan A ^b   Matrn, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Impartial trimming; Model assessment; Similarity; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; DATA SAMPLE; DATA-DRIVEN; DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; SCALE MODELS; TRIMMING PROCEDURES; WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

TRIMMING;

EID: 77955410616     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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