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Re: Best Fitted Distribution

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Subject: Re: Best Fitted Distribution
From: Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc@bfro.uni-lj.si>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:06:45 +0200
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Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell <at> vanderbilt.edu> writes:
>> Bikash Jain wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm using Environmental Stats module to fit a best distribution
>>>> to a single column of data using KS method.  Based on the 
>>>> p.value I get the
[...]
>> Any method that uses the empirical CDF or Kaplan-Meier estimator as
>>  the standard will inherit the imprecision of the ECDF, making one 
>> wonder why fitting a curve will help.  P-values from this approach
>> will be too low. Model uncertainty is being covered up.

All fine comments, but what can we actually use instead?

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