%0 Journal Article %1 Dahiya1972 %A Dahiya, Ram C. %A Gurland, John %D 1972 %I American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality %J Technometrics %K exp gamma gof %N 3 %P 791--801 %T Goodness of Fit Tests for the Gamma and Exponential Distributions %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/1267306 %V 14 %X Goodness of fit tests based on generalized minimum χ 2 techniques are developed for the gamma and exponential distributions. The power of these tests has been found for several alternative families of distributions by utilizing the asymptotic non-null distribution of the test statistic. The tests behave very well for the types of alternatives considered here. Applications to some failure data of Proschan (1963) are included for illustrative purposes.

@article{Dahiya1972, abstract = {Goodness of fit tests based on generalized minimum χ 2 techniques are developed for the gamma and exponential distributions. The power of these tests has been found for several alternative families of distributions by utilizing the asymptotic non-null distribution of the test statistic. The tests behave very well for the types of alternatives considered here. Applications to some failure data of Proschan (1963) are included for illustrative purposes.}, added-at = {2009-05-10T23:49:28.000+0200}, author = {Dahiya, Ram C. and Gurland, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24c3223e422820ae3c2300c1a95cf71a7/maverick}, copyright = {Copyright © 1972 American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality}, description = {This paper used Proschan's data to illustrate its proposed test.}, interhash = {86ed400f116044bc5b09bbd757064e4d}, intrahash = {4c3223e422820ae3c2300c1a95cf71a7}, issn = {00401706}, journal = {Technometrics}, jstor_articletype = {primary_article}, jstor_formatteddate = {Aug., 1972}, keywords = {exp gamma gof}, number = 3, pages = {791--801}, publisher = {American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality}, timestamp = {2009-05-10T23:49:29.000+0200}, title = {Goodness of Fit Tests for the Gamma and Exponential Distributions}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1267306}, volume = 14, year = 1972 }