Asymptotic spacings theory with applications to the two-sample problem

DOI10.2307/3315298zbMath0477.62028OpenAlexW2002610890MaRDI QIDQ3935291

Lars Holst, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9855009e3cecc863e7beb798e0ec35110a16f381

zbMATH Keywords

sample spacingsspacing frequencieslocally most powerful spacing tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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