General Saddlepoint Approximations: Application to the Anderson-Darling Test Statistic

DOI10.1080/03610910701730141zbMath1319.62033OpenAlexW2158052794MaRDI QIDQ3625304

David E. A. Giles, Qi'an Chen

Publication date: 12 May 2009

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/economics/assets/docs/econometrics/ewp0702.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

saddlepoint approximationgoodness-of-fitAnderson-Darling test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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