Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 150303, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/150303
Research Article

Comparison of Some Tests of Fit for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution

D. J. Best,1 J. C. W. Rayner,1,2 and O. Thas2,3

1School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
2Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
3Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Received 27 April 2012; Revised 18 July 2012; Accepted 26 July 2012

Academic Editor: Shelton Peiris

Copyright © 2012 D. J. Best et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This paper gives an empirical investigation of some tests of goodness of fit for the inverse Gaussian distribution.