Re: st: how to test the similarity between two sample distributions?

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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-Dave

On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:56 PM, G.B.Li wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> i want to compare the distributions of two random variables x and y.  
> i have samples of x and y respectively. the simplest way is to  
> compare their distributions is to draw their histograms. how to do a  
> statistical test? any nonparametric test suitable for this practice  
> in stata?
>
> many thanks!
>
> GBL
>
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