[R] ks.test "greater" and "less"

[R. Villegas]

2006/12/15, Carmen Meier <carmei3 at web.de>:
> Hello r-group
> I have a question to the ks.test.
> I would expect different values for less and greater between data1 and
> data2.
> Does anybody could explain  my point of misunderstanding the function?
>
> data1<-c(8,12,43,70)
> data2<- c(70,43,12,8)
>
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm")
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm",alternative ="less")    #expected < 0.001
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm",alternative ="greater") #expected =1
>
>
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm")
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm",alternative ="less")  #expected =1
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm",alternative ="greater") #expected < 0.001
>
>
> With regards Carmen
>
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Possible  you are unable to use the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test given that
the sample size is small.