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If I have fitted training data to a probability distribution, e.g. a poisson distribution, how can I test this fit on some test data?
To fit the poisson distribution I am using R's fitdistrplus package that using MLE for determining the optimal coefficients of a given distribution. Therefore, I have the estimated $\lambda$ for a poisson distribution based on my training data but I am not sure how to test this on some unseen test data.
Use chi-square test to check the goodness of fit to a specific distribution http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/Berenson/10th%20ed%20CD-ROM%20topics/section12_5.pdf
