Goodness-of-fit tests for Laplace, Gaussian and exponential power distributions based on $\lambda$-th power skewness and kurtosis

Alain Desgagné, Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Frédéric Ouimet

Temperature data, like many other measurements in quantitative fields, are usually modeled using a normal distribution. However, some distributions can offer a better fit while avo…