Testing for central symmetry and inference of the unknown center

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2018.05.007zbMath1469.62049OpenAlexW2804536852MaRDI QIDQ1663104

Cuizhen Niu, Xu Guo, Xinjie Dai

Publication date: 21 August 2018

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2018.05.007

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrycharacteristic functiontestingHodges-Lehmann estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15)

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Uses Software

• energy

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