A new approach to tests and confidence bands for distribution functions

DOI10.1214/22-aos2249zbMath1512.60012arXiv1402.2918OpenAlexW3212424573MaRDI QIDQ6046311

Jon A. Wellner, Lutz Dümbgen

Publication date: 10 May 2023

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2918

zbMATH Keywords

law of the iterated logarithmgoodness-of-fitlimit distributionconfidence bandmultiscale test statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Large deviations (60F10) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

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