Distributional Fitting and Goodness-of-Fit Tests

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  • October 28, 2014
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Several statistical tests exist for deciding if a sample set of data comes from a specific distribution. The most commonly used are the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the Chi-Square test. Each … Continue Reading →

Distributional Fitting

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  • October 28, 2014
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Theory Another powerful simulation tool is distributional fitting; that is, which distribution does an analyst or engineer use for a particular input variable in a model? What are the relevant … Continue Reading →

Percentile Distributional Fitting Tool

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  • October 21, 2014
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The Percentile Distributional Fitting tool (Figure 1) is an alternate way of finding and fitting the appropriate probability distributions to use in a simulation. There are several related tools and … Continue Reading →