Re: [R] Detection Times and Poisson Distribution

2009-10-28 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Ben Bolker wrote: > This is not quite right because we have estimated the > rate from the data -- from ?ks.test > ... > > But perhaps not a bad start. Actually, it is a very bad start. Using estimated parameters in tests like ks.test gives you a *compl

Re: [R] Detection Times and Poisson Distribution

2009-10-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Lorenzo Isella wrote: > > Dear All, > Apologies if my questions are too basic for this list. > I am given a set of data corresponding to list of detection times (real, > non-integer numbers in general) for some events, let us say nuclear > decays to fix the ideas. > It is a small dataset, cor

[R] Detection Times and Poisson Distribution

2009-10-27 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, Apologies if my questions are too basic for this list. I am given a set of data corresponding to list of detection times (real, non-integer numbers in general) for some events, let us say nuclear decays to fix the ideas. It is a small dataset, corresponding to about 400 nuclear decay