[SciPy-User] gamma distribution fitting: newbie question

[Daπid]

On 3 May 2015 at 19:12, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote:

> q3) If i have to estimate the chi2 and p value to see the goodness of fit,
> how can i do it in scipy. Someone please give the code i should use for the
> same. I want to see if my data follows a gamma distribution.


Here you have it:
https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.chisquare.html#scipy.stats.chisquare

Mind the warning, though. Two thirds of your bins are empty or almost
empty, so the test is not very accurate. You would have to apply an
appropriate transformation, or use a more robust method like:

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.kstest.html#scipy.stats.kstest


/David.
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