On two families of tests for normality with empirical description of their performances
Dominik Szynal ; Waldemar Wołyński
Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics, Tome 34 (2014), p. 169-185 / Harvested from The Polish Digital Mathematics Library
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We discuss two families of tests for normality based on characterizations of continuous distributions via order statistics and record values. Simulations of their powers show that they are competitive to widely recommended tests in the literature.

Publié le : 2014-01-01
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Dominik Szynal; Waldemar Wołyński. On two families of tests for normality with empirical description of their performances. Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics, Tome 34 (2014) pp. 169-185. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_7151_dmps_1159/

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