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Anderson-Darling Statistic

A statistic defined to improve the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test in the Tail of a distribution.

See also Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Kuiper Statistic


References

Press, W. H.; Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 621, 1992.




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1999-05-25