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We study a novel class of affine invariant and consistent tests for multivariate normality. The tests are based on a characterization of the standard $d$-variate normal distribution by means of the unique solution of an initial value…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze , David Strieder

We propose new affine invariant tests for multivariate normality, based on independence characterizations of the sample moments of the normal distribution. The test statistics are obtained using canonical correlations between sets of sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-11 Måns Thulin

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to test the equality of high-dimensional mean vectors of several populations via the weighted $L_2$-norm. We establish the asymptotic normality of the test statistics under the null hypothesis. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Jianghao Li , Zhenzhen Niu , Shizhe Hong , Zhidong Bai

We provide novel characterizations of multivariate normality that incorporate both the characteristic function and the moment generating function, and we employ these results to construct a class of affine invariant, consistent and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Norbert Henze , María Dolores Jiménez-Gamero , Simos G. Meintanis

We use a system of first-order partial differential equations that characterize the moment generating function of the $d$-variate standard normal distribution to construct a class of affine invariant tests for normality in any dimension. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Norbert Henze , Jaco Visagie

We study a novel class of affine invariant and consistent tests for normality in any dimension. The tests are based on a characterization of the standard $d$-variate normal distribution as the unique solution of an initial value problem of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-30 Philip Dörr , Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze

We propose a new class of goodness-of-fit tests for the inverse Gaussian distribution. The proposed tests are weighted $L^2$-type tests depending on a tuning parameter. We develop the asymptotic theory under the null hypothesis and under a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-31 J. S. Allison , S. Betsch , B. Ebner , I. J. H. Visagie

Most normality tests in the literature are performed for scalar and independent samples. Thus, they become unreliable when applied to colored processes, hampering their use in realistic scenarios.We focus on Mardia's multivariate kurtosis,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-02 Sara Elbouch , Olivier Michel , Pierre Comon

For the multi-sample equal covariance function (ECF) testing problem, Zhang (2013) proposed an $L^{2}$-norm based test. However, its asymptotic power and finite sample performance have not been studied. In this paper, its asymptotic power…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Jia Guo , Jin-Ting Zhang

This paper deals with testing for nondegenerate normality of a $d$-variate random vector $X$ based on a random sample $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ of $X$. The rationale of the test is that the characteristic function $\psi(t) = \exp(-\|t\|^2/2)$ of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Philip Dörr , Bruno Ebner , Norbert Henze

While the problem of testing multivariate normality has received considerable attention in the classical low-dimensional setting where the sample size $n$ is much larger than the feature dimension $d$ of the data, there is presently a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Xin Bing , Derek Latremouille

We develop an asymptotic theory for $L^2$ norms of sample mean vectors of high-dimensional data. An invariance principle for the $L^2$ norms is derived under conditions that involve a delicate interplay between the dimension $p$, the sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Mengyu Xu , Danna Zhang , Wei Biao Wu

The object of study is the problem of testing for uniformity of the multinomial distribution. We consider tests based on symmetric statistics, defined as the sum of some function of cell-frequencies. Mainly, attention is focused on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Sherzod M. Mirakhmedov

We revisit the problem of testing for multivariate reflected symmetry about an unspecified point. Although this testing problem is invariant with respect to full-rank affine transformations, among the hitherto few proposed tests only the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-18 Norbert Henze , Celeste Mayer

The problem of testing for the parametric form of the conditional variance is considered in a fully nonparametric regression model. A test statistic based on a weighted $L_2$-distance between the empirical characteristic functions of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-24 Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernandez , M. Dolores Jimenez-Gamero

Two-sample tests for multivariate data and non-Euclidean data are widely used in many fields. Parametric tests are mostly restrained to certain types of data that meets the assumptions of the parametric models. In this paper, we study a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-01 Hao Chen , Xu Chen , Yi Su

The assumption of normality has underlain much of the development of statistics, including spatial statistics, and many tests have been proposed. In this work, we focus on the multivariate setting and first review the recent advances in…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-18 Wanfang Chen , Marc G. Genton

We are interested in testing general linear hypotheses in a high-dimensional multivariate linear regression model. The framework includes many well-studied problems such as two-sample tests for equality of population means, MANOVA and…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-05 Haoran Li , Alexander Aue , Debashis Paul

We present new families of goodness-of-fit tests of uniformity on a full-dimensional set $W\subset\R^d$ based on statistics related to edge lengths of random geometric graphs. Asymptotic normality of these statistics is proven under the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Bruno Ebner , Franz Nestmann , Matthias Schulte

We study weighted M-estimators for $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued clustered data and give sufficient conditions for their consistency. Their asymptotic normality is established with estimation of the asymptotic covariance matrix. We address the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Mohammed El Asri , Delphine Blanke , Edith Gabriel
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