Parameter-free testing of the shape of a probability distribution

BioSystems

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 509-515

  Broom, M ^a   Nouvellet, P ^a   Bacon, J P ^a   Waxman, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional form of a distribution; Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Non parametric method

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34548457771     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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