Intermediate efficiency of some weighted goodness-of-fit statistics

Abstract

This paper compares the Anderson-Darling and some Eicker-Jaeschke statistics to the classical unweighted Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. The goal is to provide a quantitative comparison of such tests and to study real possibilities of using them to detect departures from the hypothesized distribution that occur in the tails. This contribution covers the case when under the alternative a moderately large portion of probability mass is allocated towards the tails. It is demonstrated that the approach allows for tractable, analytic comparison between the given test and the benchmark, and for reliable quantitative evaluation of weighted statistics. Finite sample results illustrate the proposed approach and confirm the theoretical findings. In the course of the investigation we also prove that a slight and natural modification of the solution proposed by Borovkov and Sycheva (1968) leads to a statistic which is a member of Eicker-Jaeschke class and can be considered an attractive competitor of the very popular supremum-type Anderson-Darling statistic.