{"title":"A FORTRAN based computer program to perform goodness of fit testing of empirical data to theoretical probability distributions","authors":"Sue D. Guthrie","doi":"10.1145/503506.503542","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Data gathering in an attempt to gain knowledge about a particular phenomenon is a key element in the work of scientists and engineers. It is a first step in the mathematical modeling or simulation of any real-world system under study. A researcher can choose to model his system with empirical data or with a theoretical probability distribution which best describes his observed data. The latter method is usually preferable.","PeriodicalId":258426,"journal":{"name":"ACM-SE 17","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1979-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM-SE 17","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/503506.503542","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Data gathering in an attempt to gain knowledge about a particular phenomenon is a key element in the work of scientists and engineers. It is a first step in the mathematical modeling or simulation of any real-world system under study. A researcher can choose to model his system with empirical data or with a theoretical probability distribution which best describes his observed data. The latter method is usually preferable.