@inproceedings{31ebb44e9bf74831a1d0783d9754ac9d,
title = "Simulated power of the discrete Cram{\'e}r-von Mises goodness-of-fit tests",
abstract = "The use of goodness-of-fit test statistics for discrete or categorical data is widespread throughout the research community with the Chi-Square the most popular when a researcher aims to determine if observed categorical data differs from a hypothesized multinomial distribution. Even for ordinal categorical data, the use of empirical distribution function (EDF) test statistics such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, the three Cram{\'e}r-von Mises (A2, W 2 and U2 as defined below) and various modifications of these are limited in the literature. Power studies of the EDF type test statistics are even more limited. This paper compares the simulated power of the three Cram{\'e}r-von Mises test statistics with that of the Chi-Square test statistic for a uniform null hypothesis against a variety of alternative distributions which are summarized in Figure 1. Recommendations are made on which is the most powerful test statistic for the predefined alternative distributions. (Figure Presented) The results of the simulated power studies in this paper lead to the following general recommendations: • For trend type alternatives A2 and W2 appear much more powerful than U2 and χ2. (See Figure 2 for a uniform null against a decreasing trend alternative distribution). • For all the other investigated alternative distributions U2 and χ2 appear much more powerful than A2 and W2. (See Figure 3 for a uniform null against a leptokurtic type alternative distribution). (Graph Presented).",
keywords = "Empirical distribution function, Goodness-of-fit, Power",
author = "M. Steele and J. Chaseling and Cameron Hurst",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
isbn = "0975840002",
series = "MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings",
pages = "1300--1304",
booktitle = "MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation",
note = "International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, MODSIM05 ; Conference date: 12-12-2005 Through 15-12-2005",
}