%0 Journal Article %@ 0162-1459 %A Anderson, Theodore Wilbur %A Darling, Donald Allan %A Columbia University and University of Michigan, %A Columbia University and University of Michigan, %D 1954 %F epos:2195 %I Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the American Statistical Association %J Journal of the American Statistical Association %N 268 %P 765-769 %T A Test of Goodness of Fit %U https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/2195/ %V 49 %X Some (large sample) significance points are tabulated for a distribution-free test of goodness of fit which was introduced earlier by the authors. The test, which uses the actual observations without grouping, is sensitive to discrepancies at the tails of the distribution rather than near the median. An illustration is given, using a numerical example used previously by Birnbaum in illustrating the Kolmogorov test.