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Hi,

I am using dfittool to plot my data as well to plot some distributions. I would like to choose the distribution that best fit to my data. Can I use the log-likelihood to decide which distribution is the best? How can I compare them using log-likelihood? the one closest to zero is the best?

Thanks in advance,

Thiago