> I want to actually fit a formal > statistical distribution to my data using the classical > methodologies (either Shapiro Wilk, Anderson Darling, > Chi-Square, etc.).
You probably need to go find out what those things do. Two of them are tests for normality, not fitting methods or distributions, and will not give you distributions to simulate from. S Ellison ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.