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I'd like to fit some standard distributions, say lognormal, to a set of data which unfortunately has ties. The precision of the measurement simply isn't high enough. Of course you can still fit the data but all goodness-of-fit test like KS and the like throw warnings - which is natural, since this case cannot happen for continuous distributions.

I tried to add some arbitrary small random $\epsilon$ to every data point to remove the ties without altering the data too much. As expected this results in ridiculously low p-values.

On the other hand: The data consists of some measurements per year. Taking only the average value/year one can fit a distribution very well. So I think it's really because of the ties.

Is there any magic solution to this problem?

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    Of possible interest: [Is there an alternative to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for tied data with correction?](http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/35606/10525), [Equivalent of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for integer data?](http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/35819/10525). –  Nov 12 '12 at 10:13

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