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June, 1993 Goodness of Fit Tests for Spectral Distributions
T. W. Anderson
Ann. Statist. 21(2): 830-847 (June, 1993). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176349153

Abstract

The spectral distribution function of a stationary stochastic process standardized by dividing by the variance of the process is a linear function of the autocorrelations. The integral of the sample standardized spectral density (periodogram) is a similar linear function of the autocorrelations. As the sample size increases, the difference of these two functions multiplied by the square root of the sample size converges weakly to a Gaussian stochastic process with a continuous time parameter. A monotonic transformation of this parameter yields a Brownian bridge plus an independent random term. The distributions of functionals of this process are the limiting distributions of goodness of fit criteria that are used for testing hypotheses about the process autocorrelations. An application is to tests of independence (flat spectrum). The characteristic function of the Cramer-von Mises statistic is obtained; inequalities for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov criterion are given. Confidence regions for unspecified process distributions are found.

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T. W. Anderson. "Goodness of Fit Tests for Spectral Distributions." Ann. Statist. 21 (2) 830 - 847, June, 1993. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349153

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Published: June, 1993
First available in Project Euclid: 12 April 2007

zbMATH: 0779.62083
MathSciNet: MR1232521
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1176349153

Subjects:
Primary: 62M10
Secondary: 62M15

Keywords: Cramer-von Mises test , Fredholm determinant , goodness of fit tests , Kolmogorov-Smirnov test , spectral distributions

Rights: Copyright © 1993 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.21 • No. 2 • June, 1993
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