A study of the properties of a new goodness-of-fit test
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Authors
Franke, Richard
Jayachandran, Toke
Subjects
Goodness-of-Fit tests
Chi squared test
K-S test
Foutz test
power comparison
random stable distributions
Pearson's distributions, mixtures of normals
Chi squared test
K-S test
Foutz test
power comparison
random stable distributions
Pearson's distributions, mixtures of normals
Advisors
Date of Issue
1980
Date
Technical Report for Period
January-March 1980
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
We investigate the power properties of a new goodness-of-fit test
proposed by Foutz (1980). This new test is compared with the Chi squared
test and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test for normality when the samples
come from (i) the family of asymmetric stable distributions, (ii) mixtures
of normal distributions, and (iii) the Pearson family. The general conclusion
is that the new test performs better than the Chi squared and the
K-S test when the parent distribution is heavy-tailed. If the hypothesized
distribution differs from the true distribution in location only,
the new test does not do as well as the other two.
Type
Technical Report
Description
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Department
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-53-80-003
Sponsors
supported in part by the Foundation Research
Program of the Naval Postgraduate School
Funder
funds provided by the Chief
of Naval Research
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Citation
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.