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A survey on distribution-free statistics based on distances between distribution functions

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Diese Arbeit wurde im Rahmen eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Forschungsvorhabens geschrieben.

In this paper we use “distance” in a non mathematical sense essentially different from the mathematical conception “metric”.

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Sahler, W. A survey on distribution-free statistics based on distances between distribution functions. Metrika 13, 149–169 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613382

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