SUBROUTINE SMIRN PURPOSE COMPUTES VALUES OF THE LIMITING DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION FOR THE KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV STATISTIC. USAGE CALL SMIRN(X,Y) DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS X - THE ARGUMENT OF THE SMIRN FUNCTION Y - THE RESULTANT SMIRN FUNCTION VALUE REMARKS Y IS SET TO ZERO IF X IS NOT GREATER THAN 0.27, AND IS SET TO ONE IF X IS NOT LESS THAN 3.1. ACCURACY TESTS WERE MADE REFERRING TO THE TABLE GIVEN IN THE REFERENCE BELOW. TWO ARGUMENTS, X= 0.62, AND X = 1.87 GAVE RESULTS WHICH DIFFER FROM THE SMIRNOV TABLES BY 2.9 AND 1.9 IN THE 5TH DECIMAL PLACE. ALL OTHER RESULTS SHOWED SMALLER ERRORS, AND ERROR SPECIFICATIONS ARE GIVEN IN THE ACCURACY TABLES IN THIS MANUAL. IN DOUBLE PRECISION MODE, THESE SAME ARGUMENTS RESULTED IN DIFFERENCES FROM TABLED VALUES BY 3 AND 2 IN THE 5TH DECIMAL PLACE. IT IS NOTED IN LINDGREN (REFERENCE BELOW) THAT FOR HIGH SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS (SAY, .01 AND .05) ASYMPTOTIC FORMULAS GIVE VALUES WHICH ARE TOO HIGH ( BY 1.5 PER CENT WHEN N = 80). THAT IS, AT HIGH SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS, THE HYPOTHESIS OF NO DIFFERENCE WILL BE REJECTED TOO SELDOM USING ASYMPTOTIC FORMULAS. SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTION SUBPROGRAMS REQUIRED NONE METHOD THE METHOD IS DESCRIBED BY W. FELLER-ON THE KOLMOGOROV- SMIRNOV LIMIT THEOREMS FOR EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS- ANNALS OF MATH. STAT., 19, 1948, 177-189, BY N. SMIRNOV--TABLE FOR ESTIMATING THE GOODNESS OF FIT OF EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS- ANNALS OF MATH. STAT., 19, 1948, 279-281, AND GIVEN IN LINDGREN, STATISTICAL THEORY, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, N. Y., 1962.