I recently came across a good whitepaper about distribution fitting from our friends at Vose Consulting (Vose offers Monte Carlo simulation software and consulting). This paper provides a nice reminder about curve fitting as well as a detailed lesson in goodness of fit tests. This quick read will come in handy for improving the accuracy of your SIMUL8 models. The paper is available in PDF format:
Fitting distributions to data and why you are probably doing it wrong
by David Vose
Feb. 15, 2010