Statistical tests for whether a given set of independent, identically distributed draws comes from a specified probability density

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 16471-16476

  Tygert, Mark ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Nonincreasing rearrangement; Nonparametric; Outlier

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 78049289907     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008446107     Document Type: Article

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