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Two-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

The two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is a nonparametric procedure that asks whether two independent groups are drawn from the same continuous distribution. Building on Smirnov's 1948 tables, it compares the empirical cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of the two samples and uses their maximum absolute distance as the test statistic.

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Two-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / statistics
  • Smirnov, N. V. (1948). Table for Estimating the Goodness of Fit of Empirical Distributions. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 19(2), 279-281. · DOI 10.1214/aoms/1177730256
  • Conover, W. J. (1999). Practical Nonparametric Statistics (3rd ed.). Wiley. · ISBN 978-0471160687
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