Recent and classical goodness-of-fit tests for the Poisson distribution |
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Authors: | Nora Gü rtler,Norbert Henze, |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Universität Karlsruhe, Englerstr. 2, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Abstract: | We give a critical synopsis of classical and recent tests for Poissonity, our emphasis being on procedures which are consistent against general alternatives. Two classes of weighted Cramér–von Mises type test statistics, based on the empirical probability generating function process, are studied in more detail. Both of them generalize already known test statistics by introducing a weighting parameter, thus providing more flexibility with regard to power against specific alternatives. In both cases, we prove convergence in distribution of the statistics under the null hypothesis in the setting of a triangular array of rowwise independent and identically distributed random variables as well as consistency of the corresponding test against general alternatives. Therefore, a sound theoretical basis is provided for the parametric bootstrap procedure, which is applied to obtain critical values in a large-scale simulation study. Each of the tests considered in this study, when implemented via the parametric bootstrap method, maintains a nominal level of significance very closely, even for small sample sizes. The procedures are applied to four well-known data sets. |
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Keywords: | Goodness-of-fit test Poisson distribution Empirical probability generating function Empirical distribution function Integrated distribution function Weak convergence under triangular arrays Parametric bootstrap Fisher's index of dispersion |
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