Meanings
nounAnderson-Darling test (plural Anderson-Darling tests)
plural Anderson-Darling tests
- mathematicsA statistical test of whether a given sample of data is drawn from a given probability distribution.
Origin
Named after Theodore Wilbur Anderson and Donald Allan Darling who invented it in 1952.
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