[R] Interpretation of Shapiro-Wilk

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> standard normal distribution.  The p value indicates how significant the
> deviation from 1 (the correlation under the null of normality) is, i.e.,

Um. The *ideal* linear correlation under normality. Even for truly normal
samples, the correlation is of course always < 1.

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