Generalizing the Cramér-von Mises and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, different integral statistics based on Lp-norms are compared with respect to local approximate Bahadur efficiency. Simulation results corroborate the theoretical findings. Several examples illustrate that goodness-of-fit testing based on Lp-norms should receive more attention. It is shown that, given a distribution function F0 a...

This paper introduces specification tests for conditional moment restrictions. The proposed tests are generalizations of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov and Cramer–von Mises tests and they are consistent against all ] Œ alternatives to the null hypothesis, powerful against 1 / n local alternatives and not dependent on any smoothing parameter. A nonparametric bootstrap procedure based on recentered crite...

Using Japanese firm-level data, I examine whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) are more productive than non-MNEs in the services sector. I employ the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test to compare the overall distribution of productivity by multinational status. The results indicate that MNEs tend to be more productive than non-MNEs in the services sector and suggest that the standard firm heterog...

Methods Twenty-seven teenagers with asthma detected through the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire answered the ISAAC rhinitis module and underwent spirometry, FeNO measurement and evaluation of QOL through Peadiatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ). Student t test and Kolmogorov – Smirnov test were applied for means comparison; associati...

Abstract. A formula for counting lattice paths in the plane from μ = (μ1, μ2) to λ = (λ1, λ2) which do not cross the lines y = x + d and y = x + c, where c, d ∈ Z and d > c, by descents and major index is given. The proof, which is purely combinatorial, uses a bijection on certain two–rowed tableaux. As application, formulas for the joint distribution of Kolmogorov–Smirnov and run statistics ar...

Seasonal flight activity and seasonal dynamics of biodiversity sawflies the Cserhát Mountains are analysed, dominance indices given. Both them modelled by normal distribution which verified Shapiro-Wilk Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. Dominance diversity curve assemblage is also provided.

This paper provides a test method to make a fair comparison between different heuristics in structure optimization. When statistical methods are applied to the structural optimization (namely heuristics or meta-heuristics with several tunable parameters and starting seeds), the "one problem - one result" is extremely far from the fair comparison. From statistical point of view, the minimal requ...

Generic side-channel distinguishers aim at revealing the correct key embedded in cryptographic modules even when few assumptions can be made about their physical leakages. In this context, KolmogorovSmirnov Analysis (KSA) and Partial Kolmogorov-Smirnov analysis (PKS) were proposed respectively. Although both KSA and PKS are based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test, they really differ a lot from ea...

Information collection is a fundamental problem in big data, where the size of sampling sets plays a very important role. This work considers the information collection process by taking message importance into account. Similar to differential entropy, we define differential message importance measure (DMIM) as a measure of message importance for continuous random variable. It is proved that th...