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New Goodness-of-Fit Test Statistics for Discrete and Grouped Continuous Data

C. DamianouDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of AthensPanepistemiopolis, Athens157 81, Greece
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A.W. KempDepartment of StatisticsUniversity of St. AndrewsNorth Haugh, St. AndrewsKY16 9SS, Scotland
Pages 275-307 | Published online: 14 Aug 2013

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