i am looking for a way to determine whether an observation from the real-world (one data point) comes from a distribution that has been created out of a simulation process. the simulation is repeated 30 times, so there ae that many data points. the idea is to test whether the simulation process replicates the real-world phenomenon, of which we have only one observation. i would even be comfortable with something that tells me, "there is a high likelihood of drawing the real-world observation from the distribution created by the simulation." thanks a lot. ravi bapna ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================