A test of goodness-of-fit based on Gini's index of spacings

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2004.02.009zbMath1058.62039OpenAlexW2128732100MaRDI QIDQ1770077

M. N. Goria, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 7 April 2005

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vn9w7tv

zbMATH Keywords

Order statisticsGini indexGoodness-of-fit testsSpacingsDirectional data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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