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Asymptotic Efficiency of Nonparametric Tests

Asymptotic Efficiency of Nonparametric Tests

Asymptotic Efficiency of Nonparametric Tests

Yakov Nikitin, St Petersburg State University
October 1995
Hardback
9780521470292

    Making a substantiated choice of the most efficient statistical test is one of the basic problems of statistics. Asymptotic efficiency is an indispensable technique for comparing and ordering statistical tests in large samples. It is especially useful in nonparametric statistics where it is usually necessary to rely on heuristic tests. This monograph presents a unified treatment of the analysis and calculation of the asymptotic efficiencies of nonparametric tests. Powerful new methods are developed to evaluate explicitly different kinds of efficiencies. Of particular interest is the description of domains of the Bahadur local optimality and related characterisation problems based on recent research by the author. Other Russian results are also published here for the first time in English. Researchers, professionals and students in statistics will find this book invaluable.

    • First unified treatment of the subject, brings together results scattered through the literature
    • Develops powerful new methods
    • Contains Russian results not well known in the West

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    'It is an excellent book. I believe that every mathematical statistician should have this book in his or her collection … I enjoyed reading this book. I am sure that others will also like it.' Ramalingam Shanmugam, SIAM Reviews

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    Product details

    October 1995
    Hardback
    9780521470292
    296 pages
    237 × 160 × 24 mm
    0.595kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Asymptotic efficiency of statistical tests and mathematical means for its computation
    • 2. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric goodness-of-fit tests
    • 3. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric homogeneity tests
    • 4. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric symmetry tests
    • 5. Asymptotic efficiency of nonparametric independence tests
    • 6. Local asymptotic optimality of nonparametric tests and the characterisation of distributions.