A Test for Equality of Distributions in High Dimensions

2010/08/17 by Rolke, Wolfgang, Lopez, Angel
#Data Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1008.2877

Abstract

We present a method which tests whether or not two datasets (one of which could be Monte Carlo generated) might come from the same distribution. Our method works in arbitrarily high dimensions.

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