A goodness-of-fit statistical toolkit

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2056-2063

  Cirrone, G A P ^a,b   Donadio, S ^a,c   Guatelli, S ^a,c   Mantero, A ^a,c   Mascialino, B ^a,c   Parlati, S ^a   Pia, M G ^a,c   Pfeiffer, A ^a,b,c,d,e   Ribon, A ^d   Viarengo, P ^e  

^a Ital Institute for Nuclear Research   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Distributions comparison; Goodness of Fit (GoF) tests; Software; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ABSTRACT INTERFACES; DISTRIBUTION COMPARISION; GOODNESS-OF-FIT (GOF) TESTS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 8344234316     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.836124     Document Type: Article

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