How is your data distributed? A practical introduction to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

An introduction to the KS test for beginners

Gianluca Malato
Towards Data Science
3 min readNov 14, 2022

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Data Scientists often need to assess the proper distribution of their data. We have already seen the Shapiro-Wilk test for normality, but what about non-normal distributions? There’s another test that can help us, which is the Kolmogorov-Smirnov…

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Theoretical Physicists, Data Scientist and fiction author. I teach Data Science, statistics and SQL on YourDataTeacher.com. E-mail: gianluca@gianlucamalato.it