A Class of Goodness-of-fit Tests Based on Transformation

Simos G. Meintanis, Ma Dolores JimÉnez Gamero and V. Alba-fernÁndez

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2014, vol. 43, issue 8, 1708-1735

Abstract: There is an increasing number of goodness-of-fit tests whose test statistics measure deviations between the empirical characteristic function and an estimated characteristic function of the distribution in the null hypothesis. With the aim of overcoming certain computational difficulties with the calculation of some of these test statistics, a transformation of the data is considered. To apply such a transformation, the data are assumed to be continuous with arbitrary dimension, but we also provide a modification for discrete random vectors. Practical considerations leading to analytic formulas for the test statistics are studied, as well as theoretical properties such as the asymptotic null distribution, validity of the corresponding bootstrap approximation, and consistency of the test against fixed alternatives. Five applications are provided in order to illustrate the theory. These applications also include numerical comparison with other existing techniques for testing goodness-of-fit.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2012.673673

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