Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for discrete distributions
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Authors
Allen, Mark Edward
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Barr, Donald R.
Date of Issue
1976-03
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
Abstract
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test is exact only
when the hypothesized distribution is continuous, "but recently
Conover has extended the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to obtain a
test that is exact in the case of discrete distributions.
Reasons for using this procedure instead of the regular
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test when the hypothesized distribution
is discrete are given. A computer subroutine is developed
to allow easy use of the procedure. The subroutine is then
used to demonstrate the conservatism of the regular Kolmogorov-
Smirnov test in this case and to investigate some properties
of the asymptotic distributions of the test statistics.
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Thesis
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Operations Research
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Naval Postgraduate School
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