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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title New graphical methods and test statistics for testing composite normality
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Authors
  • Marc Paolella
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Econometrics
Publisher MDPI Publishing
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2225-1146
Volume 3
Number 3
Page Range 532 - 560
Date 2015
Abstract Text Several graphical methods for testing univariate composite normality from an i.i.d. sample are presented. They are endowed with correct simultaneous error bounds and yield size-correct tests. As all are based on the empirical CDF, they are also consistent for all alternatives. For one test, called the modified stabilized probability test, or MSP, a highly simplified computational method is derived, which delivers the test statistic and also a highly accurate p-value approximation, essentially instantaneously. The MSP test is demonstrated to have higher power against asymmetric alternatives than the well-known and powerful Jarque-Bera test. A further size-correct test, based on combining two test statistics, is shown to have yet higher power. The methodology employed is fully general and can be applied to any i.i.d. univariate continuous distribution setting.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.3390/econometrics3030532
Other Identification Number merlin-id:12539
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