Components of Goodness-of-Fit Statistics.

Abstract

In a recent paper, Durbin and Knott (DK) (1972) partitioned the Cramer-von Mises statistic W sup 2, used for tests of goodness-of-fit, into an infinite set of components. For the case when the hypothesised distribution function is completely specified, these components have the interesting property that they all have the same distribution, to within a constant. Durbin and Knott suggested the use of some of the components as test statistics, and investigated their asymptotic powers, compared with W sup 2, for the case when the distribution tested on Ho is N(0,1), and when the family of alternatives has a different mean or a different variance. The purpose of this paper is to provide various extensions of the DK results with the intention of further illuminating the properties of the components and the entire statistics, particularly with respect to power.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 22, 1974
Accession Number
ADA013277

Entities

People

  • M. A. Stephens

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  • Stanford University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

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  • Mathematics

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  • Statistical inference.
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