Testing Parametric Distribution Family Assumptions via Differences in Differential Entropy
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| author | Mittelhammer, Ron Judge, George Henry, Miguel |
| author_facet | Mittelhammer, Ron Judge, George Henry, Miguel |
| contents | We introduce a broadly applicable statistical procedure for testing which parametric distribution family generated a random sample of data. The method, termed the Difference in Differential Entropy (DDE) test, provides a unified framework applicable to a wide range of distributional families, with asymptotic validity grounded in established maximum likelihood, bootstrap, and kernel density estimation principles. The test is straightforward to implement, computationally efficient, and requires no tuning parameters or specialized regularity conditions. It compares an MLE-based estimate of differential entropy under the null hypothesis with a nonparametric bootstrapped kernel density estimate, using their divergence as an information-theoretic measure of model fit. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Testing Parametric Distribution Family Assumptions via Differences in Differential Entropy Mittelhammer, Ron Judge, George Henry, Miguel Econometrics We introduce a broadly applicable statistical procedure for testing which parametric distribution family generated a random sample of data. The method, termed the Difference in Differential Entropy (DDE) test, provides a unified framework applicable to a wide range of distributional families, with asymptotic validity grounded in established maximum likelihood, bootstrap, and kernel density estimation principles. The test is straightforward to implement, computationally efficient, and requires no tuning parameters or specialized regularity conditions. It compares an MLE-based estimate of differential entropy under the null hypothesis with a nonparametric bootstrapped kernel density estimate, using their divergence as an information-theoretic measure of model fit. |
| title | Testing Parametric Distribution Family Assumptions via Differences in Differential Entropy |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11305 |