The paper deals with simple and composite hypotheses in statistical models with i.i.d. observations and with arbitrary families dominated by[sigma]-finite measures and parametrized by vector-valued variables. It introduces[phi]-divergence testing statistics as alternatives to the classical ones:...

The problems of estimating parameters of statistical models for categorical data, and testing hypotheses about these models are studied. Asymptotic properties of estimators minimizing [phi]-divergence between theoretical and empirical vectors of means are established. Asymptotic distributions of...

The paper presents asymptotic distributions of [phi]-disparity goodness-of-fit statistics in product multinomial models, under hypotheses and alternatives assuming sparse and nonsparse cell frequencies. The [phi]-disparity statistics include the power divergences of Read and Cressie...

The fundamentals of information theory and also their applications to testing statistical hypotheses have been known and available for some time. There is currently a new and heterogeneous development of statistical procedures, based on information measures, scattered through the literature. In...

This paper extends the results of Chen and Wu [1] concerning consistency of M-estimators in the linear regression model. We consider M-estimators defined by [formula] in the general regression model yi = f(xi,[theta] ) + [epsilon]i, where f(x, [theta]) is continuous on a separable metric space X...

We propose two families of maximally selected phi-divergence tests to detect a change in the probability vectors of a sequence of multinomial random variables with possibly different sizes. In addition, the proposed statistics can be used to estimate the location of the change-point. We derive...

We consider the problem of estimation of the parameters in Generalized Linear Models (GLM) with binary data when it is suspected that the parameter vector obeys some exact linear restrictions which are linearly independent with some degree of uncertainty. Based on minimum [phi]-divergence...