An empirical investigation of goodness-of-fit statistics for sparse multinomials

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 75, Issue 370, 1980, Pages 336-344

  Koehler, Kenneth J ^a   Larntz, Kinley ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic approximations; Chi squared; Likelihood ratio statistic; Pearson statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924532810     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1980.10477473     Document Type: Note

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