A simple goodness-of-fit test for linear models under a random design assumption

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 253-275

  Dette, Holger ^a   Munk, Axel ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equivalence of regression functions; L2 distance; Nonparametric regression check; Random design; Validation of goodness of fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 7844245425     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003439114929     Document Type: Article

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