[R] normality test

[Philippe Grosjean]

>Hello
>I have used recently the kolmogorov smirnov test,
>which is a test of normality.
>This test is named ks.test() in ctest library of R.
>I wonder if the results of ks.test ()  are true, because
>the results are strange, time to time.
>thank you for help
>meriema

In ctest, you have the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality (shapiro.test) which
is to be preferred to K-S, especially for intrinsic hypothesis, i.e.: when
mean and standard deviation are estimated from the sample itself.

Philippe Grosjean



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