KnowraEmpirical distribution functionLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Empirical distribution function, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 3Related 6Compared with 3Cumulative distribution functionBroader topic: It estimates an unknown population CDF directly from observed data.Nonparametric statisticsBroader topic: It estimates a distribution directly from observations without choosing a named distribution family.Glivenko–Cantelli theoremBroader topic: It is the random function whose uniform distance from the population distribution vanishes.