An introduction to mathematical statistics by Bain and Engelhart deals with this topic
ML "Clay S. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > You have probably thought of this, but the age old standard is the Chi > Square test. > > One thing about empirical distributions is that they may not be one of > the standard forms. This is why the Jackknife method and then later the > Bootstrapping methods were developed. Thus you can extract the > distribution for your data set. > > Clay > > > > Chia C Chong wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > Any idea where can I get good reference about the Cramer-von-Mises > > criterion?? > > > > I am trying to test the goodness-of-fit between the some theoretical > > distributions with the emprical distribution om my data. > > > > Any other suggestions on goodness-of-fit tests are welcomed and > > appreciated.... > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, > > CCC > ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================