A goodness-of-fit testing approach for normality based on the posterior predictive distribution

Daojiang He () and Xingzhong Xu

TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2013, vol. 22, issue 1, 18 pages

Abstract: In this paper, we propose several new goodness-of-fit tests for normality based on the distance between the observed sample and the predictive sample drawn from the posterior predictive distribution. Note that the predictive sample is stochastic for a set of given sample observations, the distance being consequently random. To circumvent the randomness, we choose the conditional expectation and qth quantile as the test statistics. Two statistics are related to the well-known Shapiro–Francia test, and their asymptotic distributions are derived. The simulation study shows that the new tests are able to better discriminate between the normal distribution and heavy-tailed distributions or mixed normal distributions. Against those alternatives, the new tests are more powerful than existing tests including the Anderson–Darling test and the Shapiro–Wilk test, which are two of the best tests of normality in the literature. Copyright Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 2013

Keywords: Goodness-of-fit test; Posterior predictive distribution; Predictive sample; Anderson–Darling test; Shapiro–Wilk test; 62G10; 62G09; 62F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11749-012-0282-6

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