CV2.test: CV2 test of exponentiality

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CV2 test of exponentiality

Description

Test of exponentiality based on the squared coefficient of variation.

Usage

   CV2.test(x, method = c("num", "sim", "asymp"), nSamp = 15000)

Arguments

x	Numeric vector giving the sample.
method	Method used to compute the p-value. Can be "asymp", "num" or "sim" as in LRExp.test.
nSamp	Number of samples used to compute the p-value when method is "sim".

Details

The distribution of \textrm{CV}^2 is that of Greenwood's statistic up to normalising constants. It approximately normal with expectation 1 and standard deviation 2/\sqrt{n} for a large sample size n. Yet the convergence to the normal is known to be very slow.

Value

A list of test results.

statistic, p.value	The test statistic, i.e. the squared coefficient of variation \textrm{CV}^2 and the p-value.
df	The sample size.
method	Description of the test method.

Note

This test is sometimes referred to as Wilk's exponentiality test or as WE1 test. It works quite well for a Lomax alternative (i.e. GPD with shape \xi >0), and hence can be compared to Jackson's test and the Likelihood-Ratio (LR) test of exponentiality. However, this test has lower power that of the two others while having a comparable computation cost due to the evaluation of the Greenwood's statistic distribution.

Author(s)

Yves Deville

References

S. Ascher (1990) "A Survey of Tests for Exponentiality" Commun. Statist. Theory Methods, 19(5), pp. 1811-1525.

See Also

The function CV2 that computes the statistic and LRExp.test or Jackson.test for functions implementing comparable tests or exponentiality with the same arguments.

Examples

n <- 30; nSamp <- 500
X <- matrix(rexp(n * nSamp), nrow = nSamp, ncol = n)
pVals <- apply(X, 1, function(x) CV2.test(x)$p.value)
plot(pVals)  ## should be uniform on (0, 1)

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