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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