Back in the days when I used to work with Lysys on a FACStarPlus I played a
little with the K-S test, and came to the conclusion that it had dubious
utility at best.
As far as I can recall 8 years later, the K-S test "always" reported a
significant difference between histograms, even when they were derived from
two successive runs of the same sample tube. Not the kind of result you
really want!
A similar point is made by Cox et al, Cytometry 9:291-298 (1988), who
propose some alternative methods.
I would be interested to hear of other flowers impressions of the
suitability of this test or others as applied to flow data.
Regards,
Andrew.
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