On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:55:17 +0000, Rich Ulrich wrote: >> > The Anderson-Darling test is as distribution free as the >> > Kolmogorov-Smirnov. >> Hmm, I thought I read somewhere that the KS test statistic is >> independent of the distribution that is tested against. Maybe I'm >> mistaken... > The URL below has a description that confirms the thought. Their > modification of the K-S makes use of particular distributions to make a > more powerful test. > http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35e.htm Below is > a comprehensive posting to sci.stat.math by "Ken K" on April 25, > 2001. > It cites the address above, and it quotes D'Agostino & Stephens.
That is exactly where I got my information. Good to know that I am not the only one using those pages and that my memory still seem to work as well. As for D'Agostino & Stephens: I plan on getting that on monday, and I will stop tiring all of you with these KS tests, since it seems to be of only historical interest... Koen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
