M. A. Stephens

40 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5545-9762

Simon Fraser University

Publications

Use of the Gibbs Sampler to Obtain Conditional Tests, with Applications — Biometrika 2007
Estimation and Tests of Fit for the Three-Parameter Weibull Distribution — Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1994
A goodness-of-fit test using Moran's statistic with estimated parameters — Biometrika 1989
K-Sample Anderson–Darling Tests — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1987
Tests of Fit Based on Normalized Spacings — Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1986
Asymptotic Distribution of the Shapiro-Wilk $W$ for Testing for Normality — The Annals of Statistics 1986
Tests of fit for the von Mises distribution — Biometrika 1985
On the Accuracy of Simulated Percentage Points — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1983
Use of the von Mises distribution to analyse continuous proportions — Biometrika 1982
Characterizations and Goodness of Fit Tests — Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1982
Kolmogorov Statistics for Tests of Fit for the Extreme-Value and Weibull Distributions — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1981
Estimation of Parameters of Zero-One Processes by Interval Sampling: An Adaptive Strategy — Operations Research 1979
Tests of fit for the logistic distribution based on the empirical distribution function — Biometrika 1979
Approximations to Density Functions Using Pearson Curves — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1978
Percentage points of a quadratic form in Student t variates — Biometrika 1978
Estimation of Parameters of Zero-One Processes by Interval Sampling — Operations Research 1977
Goodness of fit for the extreme value distribution — Biometrika 1977
Modified Cramér-von Mises statistics for censored data — Biometrika 1976
Asymptotic Results for Goodness-of-Fit Statistics with Unknown Parameters — The Annals of Statistics 1976
A new test for the modal vector of the Fisher distribution — Biometrika 1975
Asymptotic properties for covariance matrices of order statistics — Biometrika 1975
EDF Statistics for Goodness of Fit and Some Comparisons — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1974
Multisample Tests for the von Mises Distribution — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1972
Tests for randomness of directions against equatorial and bimodal alternatives — Biometrika 1972
Use of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Cramér–Von Mises and Related Statistics Without Extensive Tables — Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1970
Tests for the von Mises distribution — Biometrika 1969
Tests for Randomness of Directions against Two Circular Alternatives — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1969
A goodness-of-fit statistic for the circle, with some comparisons — Biometrika 1969
Tests for the Exponential Distribution Using Kolmogorov-Type Statistics — Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 1969
Further percentage points for WN2 — Biometrika 1968
Tests for the dispersion and for the modal vector of a distribution on a sphere — Biometrika 1967
Statistics connected with the uniform distribution: percentage points and application to testing for randomness of directions — Biometrika 1966
Significance points for the two-sample statistic UM, N2 — Biometrika 1965
The Testing of Unit Vectors for Randomness — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1964
The ratio of range to standard deviation in the same normal sample — Biometrika 1964
The distribution of the goodness-of-fit statistic, UN2. II — Biometrika 1964
Random walk on a circle — Biometrika 1963
The distribution of the goodness-of-fit statistic U2N. I — Biometrika 1963
The goodness-of-fit tests based on W W2N and U U2N — Biometrika 1962
Exact and approximate tests for directions. I — Biometrika 1962