Goodness-of-fit tests for the Gompertz distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2920-2937

  Lenart, Adam ^a,b   Missov, Trifon I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling statistic; Correlation coeffiicient; Empirical critical values; Extreme value distribution; Goodness of fit; Moments

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANDERSON-DARLING STATISTICS; CRITICAL VALUE; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GOODNESS OF FIT; MOMENTS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 85032069537     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2014.892323     Document Type: Article

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