Testing goodness-of-fit via order selection criteria /.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Jong-Tae, 1961-
Other Authors: Hart, Jeffrey D. (degree committee member.), Wehrly, Thomas E. (degree committee member.), Zinn, Joel (degree committee member.)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: 1992.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
ProQuest, Abstract
Description
Abstract:The objective of this research is to investigate the problem of goodness-of-fit testing based on nonparametric density estimation with a data-driven smoothing parameter. The first proposed test statistic λ[α] is itself a smoothing parameter which is selected to minimize an estimated MISE for a truncated series estimator of the comparison density function. Therefore, this test statistic leads immediately to a point estimate of the density function in the event that H[0] is rejected. The limiting distribution of λ[α] was obtained under the null hypothesis. It was also shown that this test is consistent against fixed alternatives. The other new test statistic is essentially a Neyman smooth test that uses an estimated smoothing parameter to choose the number of term s in the statistic. In our simulation study, we found this test to have excellent empirical power properties.
Item Description:"Major subject: Statistics."
Vita.
Physical Description:viii, 93 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.