PMID- 1164838
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19751212
LR  - 20191028
IS  - 0010-468X (Print)
IS  - 0010-468X (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 1
DP  - 1975 Sep
TI  - A computer program for the graphical and iterative fitting of probability density 
      functions to biological data.
PG  - 11-38
AB  - A tutorially-assisted, interactive program, written for a Digital Equipment 
      Corporation LAB-11 minicomputer (PDP-11/20, is described which allows a user to 
      fit (with or without automatic estimation of initial parameter values), by a 
      method of nonlinear least squres, any one of seven different types of probability 
      density functions (p.d.f.'s) to an empirical frequency distribution; the latter 
      of which may be input to the program or formed by the program whenever it is 
      furnished a series of times between events. The iteratively-obtained, "best fit" 
      p.d.f. is displayed on a two color, point-plot display against the background of 
      a point-plot histogram. By selecting any one of nine output modes, the user is 
      allowed: (1) to view histograms successively on the point-plot display, (2) to 
      generate selected p.d.f.'s (3) to "force" p.d.f.'s having known parameters 
      through the histogram data, (4) to obtain Chi-square (x2) and Kolmogorov-Smionov 
      estimates of the goodness of fit to the data, and (5) to apply a special test 
      [Williams and Kloot, 1953] in order to determine whether the least squares 
      estimates of two candidate models are statistically different. The resident 
      driver program and the four overlayable program segments are written in standard 
      FORTRAN IV; except for two plot routines, which are written in PDP-11 assembly 
      language.
FAU - Brassard, J R
AU  - Brassard JR
FAU - Correia, M J
AU  - Correia MJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Comput Programs Biomed
JT  - Computer programs in biomedicine
JID - 0237013
SB  - IM
MH  - *Computers
MH  - *Probability
MH  - Probability Theory
MH  - *Statistics as Topic
EDAT- 1975/09/01 00:00
MHDA- 1975/09/01 00:01
CRDT- 1975/09/01 00:00
PHST- 1975/09/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1975/09/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1975/09/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1016/0010-468x(75)90024-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Comput Programs Biomed. 1975 Sep;5(1):11-38. doi: 10.1016/0010-468x(75)90024-0.