A ratio goodness-of-fit test for the Laplace distribution

Elizabeth González-Estrada and José A. Villaseñor

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2016, vol. 119, issue C, 30-35

Abstract: A test based on the ratio of the sample mean absolute deviation and the sample standard deviation is proposed for testing the Laplace distribution hypothesis. The asymptotic null distribution for this test statistic is found to be normal. The use of Anderson–Darling test based on a data transformation is also discussed.

Keywords: Data transformation; Test for exponentiality; Mean absolute deviation; Asymptotic distributions; Anderson–Darling test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2016.07.003

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