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

[David Goldsmith]

Same problem w/ kolmogorov function:

Present description:

"The complementary CDF of the (scaled) two-sided test statistic (Kn*) valid
for large n."

Proposed alternative:

The complement of the scaled 2-sided Kn* CDF for large n

OK?

DG
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:54 PM, David Goldsmith
<d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 23:04, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 8:59 PM, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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.)
>> >>
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>
> Excellent, thanks!
>
> DG
>
>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Robert Kern
>>
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>> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
>> though it had an underlying truth."
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-- 
Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.

Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
by Robert Graves)
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