noun
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
A nonparametric statistical test used to compare a sample distribution with a reference probability distribution, or to compare two samples. Domain-specific term in mathematics and statistics.
データが正規分布に従うかどうかを調べるために、コルモゴロフ・スミルノフ検定を行った。
We performed the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to check whether the data follows a normal distribution.
The chi-squared test is used for categorical data and goodness-of-fit, while the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is used for continuous distributions and is more sensitive to differences in location and shape.
Named after the Russian mathematicians Andrey Kolmogorov and Nikolai Smirnov. The term is a direct borrowing from English 'Kolmogorov-Smirnov test'.