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Hello all: Is there a way to detect in R if a dataset is normally distributed or skewed without graphically seeing it? The reason I want to be able to do this is because I have developed and application with Visual Basic where Word,Access and Excel "talk" to each other and I want to integrate R to this application to estimate confidence intervals on fish sizes (mm). I basically want to

I get these BIZARRE results from wilcox.test() When INCREASING the number of samples i get INCREASED p-values. When increasing the number of samples further, the p-values goes down again. This seems really bizarre! Can anyone explain why this is so?! Example: > w <- wilcox.test(c(1:40),(c(1:40)+100)) > w$p.value [1] 1.860340e-23 > w <- wilcox.test(c(1:50),(c(1:50)+100)) >