Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2011, 59(4), 371-378 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201159040371
On robust analysis of paycheck: case study
- 1 Zurich Insurance plc, o.z., Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- 2 Institut für angewandte Statistik, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Freistädter Straße 315, Linz, A-4040, Austria
- 3 Ústav statistiky a operačního výzkumu, Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Česká republika
Many statistical tests are constructed to check the validity of normal distribution. Here we propose a case study on analysis of paycheck where we employ the RT class of tests for normality firstly introduced in Střelec, Stehlík (2008). In particular such a study can be of interest for pension funds theoreticians and practitioners, which study the transitions of pension systems from one social security state to the another one. Our study illustrates some possible distributional deviations of salary residuals on a real data.
Keywords: paycheck, case study, robust approach, normality testing, residuals
Grants and funding:
The research was supported in part by AKTION Austria - Czech Republic.
Received: February 28, 2011; Published: May 29, 2014 Show citation
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