[R] KS for goodness of fit

[Emmanuel Paradis]

At 09:12 29/11/2002 +0200, vous avez écrit:

>Dear All,
>I have two distributions which I don't their nature. I want to check 
>whether they come from the same distribution. I know that I can use KS 
>test however the standart function ks.test applies only the ks test for 
>testing the difference of two samples (non-parametric). By the way the 
>distribution are of Euclidean distances. One of observed and the other of 
>shuffled data.
>Thanks,
>Ron

Ron,

It seems to me that if your two distributions are not significantly 
different, you can conclude that they come from the same (theoretical) 
distribution. The KS test seems appropriate.

EP

Emmanuel Paradis
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