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Testing normality via a distributional fixed point property in the Stein characterization

Methodology 2020-02-25 v1

Abstract

We propose two families of tests for the classical goodness-of-fit problem to univariate normality. The new procedures are based on L2L^2-distances of the empirical zero-bias transformation to the normal distribution or the empirical distribution of the data, respectively. Weak convergence results are derived under the null hypothesis, under fixed alternatives as well as under contiguous alternatives. Empirical critical values are provided and a comparative finite-sample power study shows the competitiveness to classical procedures.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07069,
  title  = {Testing normality via a distributional fixed point property in the Stein characterization},
  author = {Steffen Betsch and Bruno Ebner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07069},
  year   = {2020}
}
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