[R] Testing for normality of residuals in a regression model

[Stefano Calza]

What about shapiro.test(resid(fit.object))

Stefano

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 02:44:18PM +0200, Federico Gherardini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to have a test value for assessing the normality of 
> residuals from a linear regression model, instead of simply relying on 
> qqplots?
> I've tried to use fitdistr to try and fit the residuals with a normal 
> distribution, but fitdsitr only returns the parameters of the 
> distribution and the standard errors, not the p-value. Am I missing 
> something?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Federico
> 
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