The Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit test has a highly skewed and non-standard limit distribution. Various attempts have been made to tabulate the associated critical points, using both theoretical approximations and simulation methods. We show that a standard saddlepoint approximation performs well in both tails of the distribution. It is markedly superior to other theoretical approximations i...

through Coloring-Directed Array Merging Daniela Genius Institut f ur Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation, Fakult at f ur Informatik Universitat Karlsruhe Zirkel 2, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: [email protected], WWW: http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~genius Tel.: (+49) 721 608-4763 Fax: (+49) 721 30 0 47 Sylvain Lelait Institut f ur Computersprachen, Technische U...

N. MacIntyre, R.O. Crapo, G. Viegi, D.C. Johnson, C.P.M. van der Grinten, V. Brusasco, F. Burgos, R. Casaburi, A. Coates, P. Enright, P. Gustafsson, J. Hankinson, R. Jensen, R. McKay, M.R. Miller, D. Navajas, O.F. Pedersen, R. Pellegrino and J. Wanger CONTENTS Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Author Contact: David E. Giles, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2; e-mail: [email protected]; Phone: (250) 721-8540; FAX: (250) 721-6214 Abstract We consider the quality of the maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters of the two-parameter gamma distribution in small samples. We show that the methodology suggested by Cox and S...