Score tests for inverse Gaussian mixtures

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 633-648

  Desmond, A F ^a   Yang, Z L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

defective distribution; inverse gaussian; score tests

Indexed keywords

DEFECTIVE DISTRIBUTION; FINITE SAMPLE PROPERTIES; GOODNESS OF FIT; INVERSE GAUSSIAN; INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MIXING PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SCORE TEST; SMOOTH TESTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING;

TESTING;

EID: 84255162314     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.876     Document Type: Article

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