Application of statistical methods for the comparison of data distributions

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2086-2090

  Guatelli, S ^a   Mascialino, B ^a   Pfeiffer, A ^b   Pia, M G ^a   Ribon, A ^b   Viarengo, P ^c  

^a Italian Institute for Nuclear Research   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c National Cancer Research Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data Analysis; Goodness of Fit Statistical Toolkit; Goodness of Fit testing; Power Comparison

Indexed keywords

DATA DISTRIBUTIONS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICAL TOOLKIT; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTING; POWER COMPARISON;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 23844487543     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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