[R] Normal tests disagree?

rkevinburton at charter.net rkevinburton at charter.net
Wed Dec 2 00:18:07 CET 2009


If I have data that I feed into shapio.test and jarque.bera.test yet they seem to disagree. What do I use for a decision?

For my data set I have p.value of 0.05496421 returned from the shapiro.test and 0.882027 returned from the jarque.bera.test. I have included the data set below.

Thank you.

Kevin


"Category","Period","Residual"
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",1/1/2005,-0.449735723758323
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",2/1/2005,0.281461045050074
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",3/1/2005,0.591383050911335
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",4/1/2005,0.239998659520616
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",5/1/2005,0.00343879474063987
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",6/1/2005,-2.64372061292663
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",7/1/2005,0.381630655290173
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",8/1/2005,-1.79543281552347
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",9/1/2005,1.90631012440313
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",10/1/2005,-0.256232543929779
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",11/1/2005,1.83452602676812
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",12/1/2005,-1.06869719416837
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",1/1/2006,1.04378655286183
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",2/1/2006,0.232655831328322
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",3/1/2006,-0.939084802643773
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",4/1/2006,0.854132879285335
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",5/1/2006,-1.71217066877156
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",6/1/2006,1.28040273099582
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",7/1/2006,-0.386415431325857
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",8/1/2006,-0.769127669783483
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",9/1/2006,-0.810996835089867
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",10/1/2006,0.0477292147635991
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",11/1/2006,0.294672848750557
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",12/1/2006,-0.0841330473924862
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",1/1/2007,0.231663729192233
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",2/1/2007,-0.601790650547443
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",3/1/2007,0.285635768516625
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",4/1/2007,-0.963154959558619
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",5/1/2007,1.52188112949994
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",6/1/2007,-0.826092842933196
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",7/1/2007,1.91937201229077
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",8/1/2007,-0.317789483136924
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",9/1/2007,-0.865011007394312
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",10/1/2007,-0.0281604973711276
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",11/1/2007,-0.123887049811822
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",12/1/2007,-0.0327727730592468
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",1/1/2008,-0.0654939600771254
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",2/1/2008,0.279247739913908
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",3/1/2008,0.167606602923418
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",4/1/2008,0.189533097427477
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",5/1/2008,0.402062194225847
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",6/1/2008,1.97150984262995
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",7/1/2008,-2.27538477532968
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",8/1/2008,1.89091792097945
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",9/1/2008,0.0251732151287081
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",10/1/2008,-0.2349741808124
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",11/1/2008,-0.659332058368173
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",12/1/2008,0.127284768034285
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",1/1/2009,-1.42838560676513
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",2/1/2009,0.617689775286461
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",3/1/2009,-0.034243005247084
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",4/1/2009,-0.304574261133836
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",5/1/2009,0.128679369916751
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",6/1/2009,-0.657479389968652
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",7/1/2009,0.608766068692517
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",8/1/2009,1.92814770869400
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",9/1/2009,-0.172644961366165
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",10/1/2009,-0.453255508263169
"CHILD HATS, WIGS & MASKS",11/1/2009,-1.09903330959344




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