TY - JOUR ID - epos1868 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2236446 IS - 2 A1 - Anderson, Theodore Wilbur A1 - Darling, Donald Allan N2 - The statistical problem treated is that of testing the hypothesis that n independent, identically distributed random variables have a specified continuous distribution function F(x). If Fn(x) is the empirical cumulative distribution function and ?(t) is some nonnegative weight function (0 ? t ? 1), we consider n^1/2 sup (-?<x<?) {|F(x)-Fn(x)|?^1/2[F(x)]} and n?[F(x)-Fn(x)]^2?[F(x)]dF(x). a general method for calculating the limiting distributions of these criteria is developed by reducing them to corresponding problems in stochastic processes, which in turn lead to more or less classical eigenvalue and boundary value problems for special classes of differential equations. For certain weight functions including ?=1 and ?=1/[t(1-t)] we give explicit limiting distributions. A table of the asymptotic distribution of the von Mises ?^2 criterion is given. VL - 23 TI - Asymptotic Theory of Certain "Goodness of Fit" Criteria Based on Stochastic Processes AV - none EP - 212 Y1 - 1952/06// PB - The Institute of Mathematical Statistics JF - The Annals of Mathematical Statistics KW - Weighting functions KW - Stochastic processes KW - Mathematical functions KW - Distribution functions KW - Differential equations KW - Eigenvalues KW - Eigenfunctions KW - Statistics KW - Mathematical integrals SN - 0003-4851 SP - 193 ER -