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The distribution of each member of the family of statistics based on the $R_{\phi }$-divergence for testing goodness-of-fit is a chi-squared to $o(1)$ (Pardo [pard96]). In this paper a closer approximation to the exact distribution is obtained by extracting the $\phi$-dependent second order component from the $o(1)$ term.
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