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This part is introducing comparison tests, sometimes called "goodness of fit" tests, which are used as test
hypothesis. This idea is to check, when considering a certain variable, whether it is following a predefined law among
the list of implemented ones: normal, lognormal and uniform ones. To do so, there are three different tests implemented
in Uranie. If one calls the Empirical Distribution Function of the law
(i.e. the distribution that we'd like
to test) and
the
reference law one wants to compare to, then, for
the number of data in the EDF, these tests are defined as:
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov (
) [Kolmogorov33]
- Anderson-Darling (
) [Anderson52]
- Cramer-VonMises (
) [CramervonM62]
In these three formulas, the set represents the ordered data of the random variable
which comes usually as the CDF distribution for convenience.