A test for exponentiatity against hnbue alternatives

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Vol. 15 (8) , 2295-2304
https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928608829249

Abstract

Neyman's asymptotically most powerful test in the class of al1 similar tests for testing exponentiality against a parametric class of Makeham alternatives is shown to be consistent for the much wider class of harmonic new better than used in expectation distributions.

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