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Tests for normality based on density estimators of convolutions

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  • Schick, Anton
  • Wang, Yishi
  • Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang

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Recent results show that densities of convolutions can be estimated by local U-statistics at the root-n rate in various norms. Motivated by this and the fact that convolutions of normal densities are normal, we introduce new tests for normality which use as test statistics weighted L1-distances between the standard normal density and local U-statistics based on standardized observations. We show that such test statistics converge at the root-n rate and determine their limit distributions as functionals of Gaussian processes. We also address a choice of bandwidth. Simulations show that our tests are competitive with other tests of normality.

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  • Schick, Anton & Wang, Yishi & Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang, 2011. "Tests for normality based on density estimators of convolutions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 337-343, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:81:y:2011:i:2:p:337-343
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