Comparisons of various types of normality tests

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2141-2155

  Yap, B W ^a   Sim, C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

generalized lambda distribution; kurtosis; Monte Carlo simulation; normality tests; skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857935932     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2010.520163     Document Type: Article

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