An empirical likelihood ratio based goodness-of-fit test for Inverse Gaussian distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2128-2140

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Shan, Guogen ^a   Kim, Seongeun ^a   Tsai, Wan Min ^a   Tian, Lili ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Density based; Empirical likelihood; Entropy; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651469911     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.12.024     Document Type: Article

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