[Rd] mauchly.test (instead of mauchley.test) ?

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Oct 17 23:27:38 CEST 2005


Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at telenet.be> writes:

> Wherever I look up the following reference
> the name of the author is spelled Mauchly
> contrary to the naming of the R function.
> 
> Mauchly, J.W.,
> Significance test for sphericity
> of a normal $n$-variate distribution,
> Annals of mathematical statistics, 11(1940),
> p. 204-209.
> 
> Is this a typo on the original article (which
> R Core has corrected) or is it a typo in the
> function name ?

The latter... Thanks.

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