New L2-type exponentiality tests

• Autores: Marija Cuparić, Bojana Milosević, Marko Obradović
• Localización: Sort: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, ISSN 1696-2281, Vol. 43, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 25-50
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.2436/20.8080.02.78
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  • 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.

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