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Data Transformations and Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Type-II Right Censored Samples

Methodology 2013-12-12 v1 Computation

Abstract

We suggest several goodness-of-fit methods which are appropriate with Type-II right censored data. Our strategy is to transform the original observations from a censored sample into an approximately i.i.d. sample of normal variates and then perform a standard goodness-of-fit test for normality on the transformed observations. A simulation study with several well known parametric distributions under testing reveals the sampling properties of the methods. We also provide theoretical analysis of the proposed method.

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@article{arxiv.1312.3078,
  title  = {Data Transformations and Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Type-II Right Censored Samples},
  author = {Christian Goldmann and Bernhard Klar and Simos G. Meintanis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3078},
  year   = {2013}
}