Phrase guide

Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A test used for testing a null hypothesis that an observable time series is stationary around a deterministic trend (i.e. trend-stationary) against the alternative of a unit root.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: KPSS test

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Named for the four people who proposed it, Denis Kwiatkowski, Peter C. B. Phillips, Peter Schmidt and Yongcheol Shin in the 1992 paper "Testing the null hypothesis of stationarity against the alternative of a unit root".