Dear G.B.,
Have you considered the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test?
- Regards,
Bob Yaffee
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Silver School of Social Work
New York University
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.B.Li" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, April 7, 2008 7:57 pm
Subject: st: how to test the similarity between two sample distributions?
To: [email protected]
> 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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