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I am having a hard time interpreting the results of the 'shapiro.test' for normality. If I do ?shapiro.test I see two examples using rnorm and runif. When I run the test using rnorm I get a wide variation of results. Most of this may be from variability of rnorm, samll sample size (limited to 5000 for the test), etc but if I repeat the test multiple times I can get: >

Hi, I am trying to create a table with information from Shapiro Wilk's test of normality. However, it fails due to lack of sample size, it says, but the way I see it, this is not a problem. (See the table of sample sizes (almost) at the bottom). Applying a different function using a similar ftable call is not a problem (See the bottom table). This is R 2.1.0 on Linux (Gentoo). /Fredrik

Hi, I am looking for a normality test in R to see if a vector of data I have can be assumed to be normally distributed and hence used in a linear regression. > help.search("normality test") suggests the Shapiro test, ?shapiro.test. Now maybe I am interpreting things incorrectly (as is usually the case), am I right in assuming that this is a composite test for normality, and hence a

Hi everybody, somehow i dont get the shapiro wilk test for normality. i just can?t find what the H0 is . i tried : shapiro.test(rnorm(5000)) Shapiro-Wilk normality test data: rnorm(5000) W = 0.9997, p-value = 0.6205 If normality is the H0, the test says it?s probably not normal, doesn ?t it ? 5000 is the biggest n allowed by the test... are there any other test ? ( i know qqnorm

Hi all T gurus, I would like to test if my dataset is indeed from N(0, 0.011908969). K.S. test gives following result: > ks.test(data, "pnorm", 0, 0.011908969) One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test data: data D = 0.1092, p-value = 1.318e-05 alternative hypothesis: two-sided How ever "Shapiro-Wilk" test give following : >

Hi all, I have two very large samples of data (10000+ data points) and would like to perform normality tests on it. I know that p < .05 means that a data set is considered as not normal with any of the two tests. I am also aware that large samples tend to lead more likely to normal results (Andy Field, 2005). I have a few questions to ensure that I am using them right. 1) The Shapiro-Wilk

Hi, this is my first help request so please bear with me. I've been running some normality tests using the nortest package. For some of my datasets the Cramer-von Mises normality test generates an extremely high probability (e.g., 1.637e+31) and indicates normality when the other tests do not. Is there something I'm misunderstanding or potentially a bug in the code? Below are the

Dear R users, I have a data frame in the form below, on which I would like to make normality tests on the values in the ExpressionLevel column. > head(df) ID Plant Tissue Gene ExpressionLevel 1 1 p1 t1 g1 366.53 2 2 p1 t1 g2 0.57 3 3 p1 t1 g3 11.81 4 4 p1 t2 g1 498.43 5 5 p1 t2 g2 2.14 6 6 p1 t2 g3 7.85 I

Hello, I would like to know if there is a function in R that will test for normality and handle censored data sets. Currently, I evaluate each censored data set by the extent to which a normal scores plot approximate a straight line. For complete data sets I use shapiro.test(). Below is an example of a censored data set. data1<-c(0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 5.86, 5.17, 8.17, 5.12, 4.92, 7.08,

I have a large amount of data which I break down into a collection of vectors of 100-125 values each. I would like to test the normality of the vectors and compare them. In the interactive mode I can test any one vector using the Shapiro-Wilk test or the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. My problem is that when I try to write out the results to a file, the term output is a mixture of alpha characters

Hi all, apologies for seeking advice on a general stats question. I ve run normality tests using 8 different methods: - Lilliefors - Shapiro-Wilk - Robust Jarque Bera - Jarque Bera - Anderson-Darling - Pearson chi-square - Cramer-von Mises - Shapiro-Francia All show that the null hypothesis that the data come from a normal distro cannot be rejected. Great. However, I don't think it looks

Hi, I have a small set of data on which I have tried some normality tests. When I make a histogram of the data the distribution doesn't seem to be normal at all (rather lognormal), but still no matter what test I use (Shapiro, Anderson-Darling,...) it returns a very small p value (which as far as I know means that the distribution is normal). Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks Pieter

Good Night I made different test to check normality and multinormality in my dataset, but I don´t know which test is better. To verify univariate normality I checked: shapiro.test, cvm.test, ad.test, lillie.test, sf.test or jaque.bera.test and To verify multivariate normal distribution I use mardia, mvShapiro.Test, mvsf, mshapiro.test, mvnorm.e. I have a dataset with almost 1000 data and 9

Hello, does anyone know how to take the mean for a subset of observations? For example, suppose my data looks like this: OBS NAME SCORE 1 Tom 92 2 Tom 88 3 Tom 56 4 James 85 5 James 75 6 James 32 7 Dawn 56 8 Dawn 91 9 Clara 95 10 Clara 84 Is there a way to get

Hello, Do you know a R implemented normality test like the shapiro test but more suitable for large data set ? Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez toutes les possibilités de communication avec vos proches [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I have found quite a few posts on normality checking of response variables, but I am still in doubt about that. As it is easy to understand I'm not a statistician so be patient please. I want to estimate the possible effects of some predictors on my response variable that is nº of males and nº of females (cbind(males,females)), so, it would be:

The normality of the residuals is important in the inference procedures for the classical linear regression model, and normality is very important in correlation analysis (second moment)... Washington S. Silva > Thank you all for your replies.... they have been more useful... well > in my case I have chosen to do some parametric tests (more precisely > correlation and linear regressions

My stat textbook tells me that using Shapiro-Wilk test for each variable one by one is not equal to a test for multivariate normality as a whole. Does R have a function of testing for multivariate normality? Thanks. Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, Ph.D. Lab Manager Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology 800 West 46th Street Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23508 Phone:757.683.4571

I was wondering if it was possible to do a normality test on a very large sample dataset. It is approx. 160,000 residual estimates from meshes modelling the brain surfaces of 50 subjects (25 patients). shapiro.test only works with at most 5000 points. Are there issues with very large samples sizes that I should be aware of? Cheers, -Morgan

Dear Federico, see: ? shapiro.test(stats) Shapiro-Wilk Normality Test and ? jarque.bera.test(tseries) Jarque-Bera Test They are the most common tests used for normality testing. Ciao Vito Federico Gherardini wrote on Fri Oct 15 14:44:18 CEST 2004: Hi all, Is it possible to have a test value for assessing the normality of residuals from a linear regression model,