[R] weibull test

[kjetil halvorsen]

I don't know the answer, but there must be something better than the KS
test?, but maybe not in R. If you can think about an alternative you can
construct a likelihood ratio test.

Kjetil Halvorsen

Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
> 
> At 11:18 18/12/2002 +0100, vous avez écrit:
> >Hello
> >What is the appropriate method to test if a given distribution is a
> >weibull
> >thank you
> >meriema
> >
> >email
> >meriema.belaidouni at int-evry.fr
> 
> You can use a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. See ?ks.test where there is an
> example with a gamma distribution. You will probably need to estimate the
> parameters  of the Weibull which you can do with fitdistr() in package MASS.
> 
> However, I don't know if the distribution of the KS test will be the same
> if some parameters are estimated from the data or not (apparently,
> ks.test() doesn't do any correction). Someone on the list can help here.
> 
> Emmanuel Paradis
> 
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