Date of Award

Spring 5-17-2013

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Mathematics and Statistics

First Advisor

Dr. Yuanhui Xiao

Second Advisor

Dr. Yu Xie

Third Advisor

Dr. Yichuan Zhao

Abstract

The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test is widely used as a goodness-of-fit test. This thesis consists of two parts to describe ways to improve the classical K-S test in both 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional data. The first part is about how to improve the accuracy of the classical K-S goodness-of-fit test in 1-dimensional data. We replace the p-values estimated by the asymptotic distribution with near-exact p-values. In the second part, we propose two new methods to increase power of the widely used 2-dimensional two-sample Fasano and Franceschini test. Simulation studies show the new methods are significantly more powerful than the Fasano and Franceschini’s test.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57709/4075144

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