Claudia
I am not sure I fully understand your question.
However, for hypothesis testing, you need to set a critical value at which
you accept or reject the null hypothesis. Let's say this critical value, or
alpha is 0.05. Now, if p-value is less than 0.05 your reject the null
hypothesis (which states that your observed distribution follows a Gaussian
distribution). Conversely, if p>0.05 then you accept the null hypothesis and
consider that your data approximates a Gaussian distribution.
HTH
Hind
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Hello,
would someone guide me on how to interpret the output of a two-sided
kolmogorov-Smirnov test?
In order to conclude for the equality or not of the distributions, what
p-value I have to see? As you know, if I perform a test for the
equality of two distributions, I have three rows where the last one is
the combined K-S. My question is if I have to see only this last row
(p-value) in ordwer to drow a conclusion.
thanks a lot
Claudia
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