A Monte Carlo evaluation of the performance of two new tests for symmetry

DOI10.1007/s00180-016-0680-4zbMath1417.62110OpenAlexW2509554744MaRDI QIDQ1695416

J. S. Allison, Charl Pretorius

Publication date: 7 February 2018

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-016-0680-4

zbMATH Keywords

empirical characteristic functiongoodness-of-fitcharacterisation of symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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Uses Software

• tseries

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