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The goals of this study are (1) to analyse the accuracy of the approximation of empirical distributions of diameter at breast height (dbh) using two−component mixtures of either the Weibull distribution or the gamma distribution in two−cohort stands, and (2) to discuss the procedure of choosing goodness−of−fit tests. The study plots were located in the Świętokrzyski National Park (central Poland) and in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (eastern USA). The results of the goodness−of−fit tests (chi−squared, Kolmogorov−Smirnov, Cramér−von Mises, and Anderson−Darling), normalised bias and normalised root mean square error, indicate that dbh empirical distributions of two−cohort stands are compatible with the mixture models investigated. The chi−squared test and the generalization of the Anderson−Darling test to discrete distributions should be used to assess whether empirical dbh data are consistent with a hypothesized null distribution.