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Some fundamental properties of the empirical distribution function are derived in the case of independent but not necessarily identically distributed random variables. The distribution functions of ...

SAS/INSIGHT software provides tests for the null hypothesis that the input data values are a random sample from a normal distribution. These test statistics include the Shapiro-Wilk statistic (W) and ...

When you use a WEIGHT statement, the percentiles are computed differently. The 100pth weighted percentile y is computed from the empirical distribution function with averaging where w i is the weight ...