# Testing Equivalence of Multinomial Distributions

@article{Ostrovski2016TestingEO,
title={Testing Equivalence of Multinomial Distributions},
journal={Behavioral \& Experimental Accounting eJournal},
year={2016}
}
• V. Ostrovski
• Published 12 May 2016
• Mathematics
• Behavioral & Experimental Accounting eJournal
We introduce the smooth total variation distance as a natural choice to establish equivalence. We propose asymptotic and bootstrap-based tests for which asymptotic optimality is shown. The finite sample performance is studied by simulations. Then we apply tests to real data sets.
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