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Title: A quantile goodness-of-fit test for Cauchy distribution, based on extreme order statistics (English)
Author: Rublík, František
Language: English
Journal: Applications of Mathematics
ISSN: 0862-7940 (print)
ISSN: 1572-9109 (online)
Volume: 46
Issue: 5
Year: 2001
Pages: 339-351
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: A test statistic for testing goodness-of-fit of the Cauchy distribution is presented. It is a quadratic form of the first and of the last order statistic and its matrix is the inverse of the asymptotic covariance matrix of the quantile difference statistic. The distribution of the presented test statistic does not depend on the parameter of the sampled Cauchy distribution. The paper contains critical constants for this test statistic, obtained from $50\,000$ simulations for each sample size considered. Simulations show that the presented test statistic is for testing goodness-of-fit of the Cauchy distributions more powerful than the Anderson-Darling, Kolmogorov-Smirnov or the von Mises test statistic. (English)
Keyword: sample quantiles
Keyword: chi-squared statistics
Keyword: goodness-of-fit
Keyword: Cauchy distribution
MSC: 62G10
MSC: 62G30
idZBL: Zbl 1059.62048
idMR: MR1925192
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013704326683
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Date available: 2009-09-22T18:07:26Z
Last updated: 2020-07-02
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/134472
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