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VOL. 7 | 2010 On a paradoxical property of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov two-sample test
Alexander Y. Gordon, Lev B. Klebanov

Editor(s) J. Antoch, M. Hušková, P.K. Sen

Inst. Math. Stat. (IMS) Collect., 2010: 70-74 (2010) DOI: 10.1214/10-IMSCOLL707

Abstract

The two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test can lose power as the size of one sample grows while the size of the other sample remains constant. In this case, a paradoxical situation takes place: the use of additional observations weakens the ability of the test to reject the null hypothesis when it is false.

Information

Published: 1 January 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 29 November 2010

MathSciNet: MR2808367

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/10-IMSCOLL707

Subjects:
Primary: 62G10

Keywords: Kolmogorov goodness-of-fit test , Kolmogorov–Smirnov two-sample test , unbiasedness

Rights: Copyright © 2010, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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