[R] Normal distribution

Colin Millar C.Millar at MARLAB.AC.UK
Fri Oct 2 11:08:49 CEST 2009


A quick google on 'normality test' (no quotes) gives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality_test. This gives you a few more tests than the KS test.

Cheers,
Colin.


Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think you can also use a qq-plot to do the same, no? You won't get a
> statistic score + p.value, but perhaps you're more of a visual person?
> :-)
> 
> -steve
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Richardson, Patrick
> <Patrick.Richardson at vai.org> wrote:
>> ?shapiro.test
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Noela Sánchez
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>> Subject: [R] Normal distribution
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am dealing with how to check in R if some data that I have belongs to a normal distribution or not. I am not interested in obtaining the theoreticall frequencies. I am only interested in determing if (by means of a test as Kolmogorov, or whatever), if my data are normal or not.
>>
>> But I have tried with ks.test() and I have not got it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Noela
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>> Universidad de A Coruña
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