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This paper presents a proposal for a nonparametric test which could determine an unknown distribution. The proposal is a modification of the David-Hellwig “empty cells” test. The area of variability of an attribute is divided into m cells. Next we take a sample from a population. Then, we calculate a number of elements for each cell. In the David-Hellwig test, we calculate the value of the statistic Kn = card{j: mj = 0} which counts empty cells. In the proposed modification, we calculate the value of several statistics, which are based on the number of cells which contain 0,1,…, k (k is the parameter of this test) elements.
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Konczak, G. (2005). On the Modification of the David-Hellwig Test. In: Baier, D., Wernecke, KD. (eds) Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26981-9_17
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