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RE: st: How to test whether data follows Exp distribution?
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RE: st: How to test whether data follows Exp distribution?
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Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
I could also be wrong, but if Y is exponential, then wouldn't log(Y) be linear?
reg jordan
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>From: "Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 7, 2010 2:01 PM
>To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: st: How to test whether data follows Exp distribution?
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>If I recall my basic math stat, log(Y) should be uniform if Y is exponential. So you could check it that way. A very simple idea would be to bin the logs and do a chi-squared gof test.
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>Tony
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>Peter A. Lachenbruch
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten buis
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:39 PM
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>Subject: Re: st: How to test whether data follows Exp distribution?
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>--- On Wed, 7/7/10, Jabr, Wael M wrote:
>> I am trying to find if the variable I
>> have follows an exponential distribution.
>
>You can use -hangroot- to check an empirical
>distribution against, among others, an
>exponential distribution. To install it type
>in Stata -ssc install hangroot-.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Maarten
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