[Jprogramming] uniform random numbers

Devon McCormick devonmcc at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 21:52:31 UTC 2020


I would say that, for a uniform distribution, it seems like this has to be
true.  In fact, if it were not, the distribution is de-facto non-uniform.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:35 PM Brian Schott <schott.brian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't believe OP is trying to conclude 2 distributions are different, but
> that one is similar to another.
> The way I learned such goodness of fit tests, the null hypothesis
> always assumes equality. You do not have a choice on that.
> There is a separate section in the wikipedia article which states how to
> construct a confidence interval, but I cannot quite  understand how to
> apply it.
> "Setting_confidence_limits_for_the_shape_of_a_distribution_function"
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:56 PM Raul Miller <rauldmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The distributions are not equal.
> >
> > The ?n$q distribution lacks any elements which exceed q (or are equal
> > to q) while the ?m$p distribution would contain such values.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> >
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