Abstract
An exact distribution and complete asymptotic expansions are obtained for a statistic studied by Smirnov in connection with the calculation of limiting distributions for the statistics D+(n1, n2), D−(n1, n2, and
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 53, pp. 54–63, 1975.
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Borovskikh, Y.V. Smirnov's two-sample problem. J Math Sci 12, 177–184 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01262717
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01262717