ON THE POWERS OF SOME NEW CHI-SQUARE TYPE STATISTICS

Clement Ampadu (U. S. A.)

Received March 5, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: alternative distribution, multinomial distribution, null distribution, power, goodness-of-fit, chi-square type statistics.