A New Goodness-of-Fit Test for Grouped Data

Abstract

In data analysis of reliability, the traditional goodness-of-fit test is not applicable for grouped data under some circumstances. In this paper, a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test based on survival ratio method is proposed to determine the distribution type of grouped data. The power of the proposed test and other well-known goodness-of-fit tests are compared by Monte Carlo simulation, and the results show that the proposed test method is more powerful.