Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to … Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach Frank A. Cowell ∗ , Emmanuel Flachaire † and Sanghamitra … economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the …

In this paper, we compare the powers of several discrete goodness-of-fit test statistics considered by Steele and …

Goodness-of-fit test statistics are widely used in health and medicine related surveys however little regard is usually … given to their statistical power. This paper investigates the simulated power of five categorical goodness-of-fit test … on these simulations are provided on which of these goodness-of-fit test statistics is the most powerful overall and …

goodness-of-fit test statistics based on the empirical distribution function. We argue that failing to re-estimate unknown …

In this article the authors develop goodness-of-fit tests for fuzzy-set analyses to formally assess the fit between … empirical information and various causal hypotheses while accounting for measurement error in membership scores. These goodness-of-fit … goodness-of-fit tests and descriptive measures may be used to assess individual causal factors as well as conjunctions of …

, kappa, and Wakeby distributions. Based on an L-moments goodness-of-fit statistic, the Pearson type III distribution is …

We outline a general paradigm for constructing asymptotically distribution-free (ADF) goodness-of-fit tests, which can …

Several copula goodness-of-fit approaches are examined, three of which are proposed in this paper. Results are …