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COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 693-704Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03610911003615816
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Closest fit; Kolmogorov-Smirnov; Normal distribution
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In this article we propose an improvement of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality. In the current implementation of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, given data are compared with a normal distribution that uses the sample mean and the sample variance. We propose to select the mean and variance of the normal distribution that provide the closest fit to the data. This is like shifting and stretching the reference normal distribution so that it fits the data in the best possible way. A study of the power of the proposed test indicates that the test is able to discriminate between the normal distribution and distributions such as uniform, bimodal, beta, exponential, and log-normal that are different in shape but has a relatively lower power against the student's, t-distribution that is similar in shape to the normal distribution. We also compare the performance (both in power and sensitivity to outlying observations) of the proposed test with existing normality tests such as Anderson-Darling and Shapiro-Francia.
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