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A quantile goodness-of-fit test applicable to distributions with non-differentiable densities. (English) Zbl 0930.62015
Author’s summary: The asymptotic distribution of the random vector of differences between theoretical probabilities and their estimates, based on the sample quantiles and on an estimate of the unknown parameter, is derived in a setting not requiring differentiability of the densities. By means of this result, asymptotically chi-square distributed goodness-of-fit test statistics are constructed for the exponential and for the Laplace distribution.

##### MSC:
 6.2e+21 Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics
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