R devel - Nov 2004 - help.search('goodness of fit') is empty

In 2.0.1 the command

help.search('goodness of fit')

comes up empty.  "ks.test" is what I was looking for,
though perhaps there could be others?

Patrick Burns

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Patrick Burns wrote:
> In 2.0.1 the command
>
> help.search('goodness of fit')
>
> comes up empty.  "ks.test" is what I was looking for,
> though perhaps there could be others?
Isn't that rather vague?  All tests could be in that category, as well as 
all anova methods and probably all diagnostics.  At least one special case 
of chisq.test probably has a better claim.

The entry in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences supports the very 
general view: it even has the Shapiro test.

Try help.search("statistics") or help.search("data
analysis") ....


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