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W dniu 2012-09-24 23:56, Mariusz Gromada pisze:

> Ok, finally I have some formal results. To be completely honest I need
> to point out that, in fact, we have a discrete data (for example
> integers 0, 1, ..., 63, but not continues numbers spread across 0 and
> 63). That is way  I am going to use two sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

Another clarification is needed. KS test in general (and in theory) 
should be used for continuous distributions. But in our case we can 
easily say that we observe our distribution in integers only (rounding), 
and the whole rest is easily estimated.

Regards,
Mariusz