A COMPARISON OF SOME TEST STATISTICS OF THE KOLMOGOROV TYPE.

Abstract

It is natural to associate optimal estimation and optimal statistical testing. In the paper continuous function estimation of the cumulative distribution is used to define two test statistics that compete with the Kolmogorov D sub N statistic. The first statistic, C sub N, is attributed to Pyke and the second, R sub N, is obtained by polygonalizing the sample distribution function. It is known that both are asymptotically equivalent to the Kolmogorov statistic. Using the methods of J. Durbin, the small sample distributions are tabled as well as the critical points for significance levels of .20, .10, .05, .025, and .01. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0704780

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People

  • Jasper Paul Hendren

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Statistical inference.