[SciPy-User] Meaning of the phrase "Kolmo.-Smirnov complementary CDF"

[Robert Kern]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 23:04, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> This phrase occurs in the description of smirnov in scipy.special; is the
>> meaning changed if I swap the complementary and the Kolmo.-Smirnov, i.e., is
>> "Complementary Kolmo.-Smirnov CDF" equivalent in meaning?  (I need to
>> shorten the description to fit on one terminal line and would like to
>> substitute 1 - KSCDF or some such for it.)
>>
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> I think Kolmogorov should be spelled out.

+1

> Is "Complementary Kolmo.-Smirnov
> CDF" equivalent to what?

Subject: Meaning of the phrase "Kolmo.-Smirnov complementary CDF"

"The complement of the one-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov CDF." will suffice
for a one-line description. Do not use "1 - KSCDF", please.

-- 
Robert Kern

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