Tag: Kolmogorov

Comparing sample distributions with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test

Often in statistics we need to understand if a given sample comes from a specific distribution, most commonly the Normal (or Gaussian) distribution. For this intent we have the so-called normality tests, such as Shapiro-Wilk, Anderson-Darling or the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. All of them measure ho...