Goodness-of-fit testing for Weibull-type behavior

In the process of analyzing data, testing the fit of a model under consideration is a prerequisite for performing inference about the model parameters. In this paper we examine the goodness-of-fit testing problem for assessing whether a sample is consistent with the Weibull-type model. Inspired by the Jackson and the Lewis test statistics, originally proposed as goodness-of-fit tests for the exponential distribution, we introduce two new statistics for testing Weibull-type behavior, and study their asymptotic properties. Moreover, given that the statistics are ratios of estimators for the Weibull-tail coefficient, we obtain new estimators for the latter, and establish their consistency and asymptotic normality. The small sample behavior of our statistics and estimators is evaluated on the basis of a simulation study.