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Non-unbiasedness of Cramer-von Mises test

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This paper shows that for any given level of significanceα ∈ (0,1), and any sample sizen, the Cramer-von Mises test is not unbiased.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Graduate School at Beijing, University of Science and Technology of China, 100039, Beijing, China

    Xiru Chen

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Chen, X. Non-unbiasedness of Cramer-von Mises test. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 43, 1046–1050 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02898238

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