New L2-type exponentiality tests

We introduce new consistent and scale-free goodness-of-fit tests for the exponential distribution based on the Puri-Rubin characterization. For the construction of test statistics we employ weighted L2 distance between V-empirical Laplace transforms of random variables that appear in the characteriz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cuparić, Marija, Milosević, Bojana, Obradović, Marko
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/178512
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/178512
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Goodness-of-fit
exponential distribution
Laplace transform
Bahadur efficiency
V-statistics with estimated parameters
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62G Nonparametric inference
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Estadística matemàtica
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Sumario:We introduce new consistent and scale-free goodness-of-fit tests for the exponential distribution based on the Puri-Rubin characterization. For the construction of test statistics we employ weighted L2 distance between V-empirical Laplace transforms of random variables that appear in the characterization. We derive the asymptotic behaviour under the null hypothesis as well as under fixed alternatives. We compare our tests, in terms of the Bahadur efficiency, to the likelihood ratio test, as well as some recent characterization based goodness-of-fit tests for the exponential distribution. We also compare the power of our tests to the power of some recent and classical exponentiality tests. According to both criteria, our tests are shown to be strong and outperform most of their competitors.