A Goodness of Fit Test For Exponentiality Based on Lin-Wong Information

Authors

  • M. Abbasnejad
  • M. Tavakoli
  • N. R. Arghami
Abstract:

In this paper, we introduce a goodness of fit test for expo- nentiality based on Lin-Wong divergence measure. In order to estimate the divergence, we use a method similar to Vasicek’s method for estimat- ing the Shannon entropy. The critical values and the powers of the test are computed by Monte Carlo simulation. It is shown that the proposed test are competitive with other tests of exponentiality based on entropy.

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volume 11  issue None

pages  191- 202

publication date 2012-11

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