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A Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Test for Sparse Multinomial Data

  • Published : 2003.05.31
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Abstract

We consider the problem of testing cell probabilities in sparse multinomial data. Aerts, et al.(2000) presented $T_1=\sum\limits_{i=1}^k(\hat{p}_i-p_i)^2$ as a test statistic with the local polynomial estimator $(\hat{p}_i$, and showed its asymptotic distribution. When there are cell probabilities with relatively much different sizes, the same contribution of the difference between the estimator and the hypothetical probability at each cell in their test statistic would not be proper to measure the total goodness-of-fit. We consider a Pearson type of goodness-of-fit test statistic, $T=\sum\limits_{i=1}^k(\hat{p}_i-p_i)^2/p_i$ instead, and show it follows an asymptotic normal distribution.

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