Multivariate normality testing plays a critical role in modern statistical analysis by evaluating whether a multivariate dataset conforms to the assumptions of a normal distribution. Such assessments ...
Environmental data often include left-censored values reported to be less than some limit of detection (LOD). While simple imputation of a specific value such as LOD/2 is common, maximum likelihood ...
This paper compares the estimative and predictive methods of estimating a multivariate normal density, and shows that in terms of a goodness-of-fit criterion based on an information measure, the ...