An asymptotically distribution-free test of symmetry

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2006.06.009zbMath1104.62048OpenAlexW2008521110MaRDI QIDQ866621

Magnus Ekström, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fm7431j

zbMATH Keywords

spacingssymmetric distributionscoefficient of skewnessconsistency of variance estimators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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