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moments::anscombe.test(x) does give errors when x has too few values or if all the values in x are the same > moments::anscombe.test(c(1,2,6)) Error in if (pval > 1) pval <- 2 - pval : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed > moments::anscombe.test(c(2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2)) Error in if (pval > 1) pval <- 2 - pval : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed You can use tryCatch() to

Hi Bill, Thanks for prompt reply and letting me know a way around it. I have more than 1200 observations and not all the values are the same. However, my data points are quite similar, for example, 0.079275, 0.078867, 0.070716 in millions and etc. I have run the data without converting it to millions and I still get the same error message. As I have kurtosis value, it should be fine for the

Another bad case is > moments::anscombe.test(rep(c(1,1.1),length=35)) Error in if (pval > 1) pval <- 2 - pval : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed I haven't checked the formulas carefully, but I suspect the problem is from taking the cube root of a negative number in z <- (1 - 2/(9 * a) - ((1 - 2/a)/(1 + xx * sqrt(2/(a - 4))))^(1/3))/sqrt(2/(9 * a)) In R, the

Dear R-users, I am comparing differences in variance, skew, and kurtosis between two groups. For variance the comparison is easy: just var.test(group1, group2) I am using agostino.test() for skew, and anscombe.test() for kurtosis. However, I can't find an equivalent of the F.test or Mood.test for comparing kurtosis or skewness between two samples. Would the test just be a 1 df test on

Hello I do not know very much about statistics (and English language too :-( ), then I come in search of a clarification (explanation): I found two distinct results on KURTOSIS and I do not know which of them is the correct one. Any aid will be welcome! klebyn ################ CODE rnorm(1000) -> x library(moments) kurtosis(x) skewness(x) detach("package:moments")

I have a question about the D'Agostino skewness test and the Anscombe-Glynn kurtosis test. agostino.test(x, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater")) anscombe.test(x, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater")) The option "alternative" in those two functions seems to be the null hypothesis. In the output, the

I checked the help and the mailing list archives, but I can find no mention of a routine that calculates higher moments like skewness and kurtosis. Of course, these are easy enough to write myself, but I was thinking that they MUST be in here. Am I wrong? Thanks. -Frank

Hi, I'm a newcomer to R, having previously used SPSS. One problem I have run into is computing kurtosis. A test dataset is here: http://www.whinlatter.ukfsn.org/2401.dat > library(moments) > data <- read.table("2401.dat", header=T) > attach(data) > loglen <- log10(Length) With SPSS, I get Skewness -0.320 Kurtosis -1.138 With R: > skewness(loglen) [1]

Hi! Suppose I have a dataset as follows pd = c(10,7,10,11,7,11,7,6,8,3,12,7,7,10,10) I wish to calculate the mean, standard deviation, median, skewness and kurtosis i.e. regular standard statistical measures. average = mean(pd) stdev    = sd(pd) median = median(pd) skew    = skewness(pd) kurt     =  kurtosis(pd) Q. No (1) How do I get these at a stretch using some R package? I came across

Dear R helpers If for a given data, I need to calculate Mean, Standard Deviation, Mode, Median, Skewness, Kurtosis, is there any package in R, which will calculate these moments? Individually I can calculate these, but if there is any function which will calculate these at a stretch, please let me know. Maithili The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.

Dear Experts, If I have a vector of numbers x. (1) How can I write R code to compute the moments around zero of order one to four? (2) How can I write R code to compute the moments around the mean of order one to four? Thank you very much! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Writing-R-code-for-moments-tp2967946p2967946.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive

Hi all, I'm wondering whether it is possible to construct a confidence interval using only the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis, i.e. without any of the population? If anyone could help with this it'd be much appreciated (even if just a confirmation of it being impossible!). Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Folks: I'm trying to port some code from python over to R, and I'm running into a wall finding R code that can solve a generalized eigenvalue problem following this function model: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.linalg.eig.html Any ideas? I don't want to call python from within R for various reasons, I'd prefer a "native" R solution if one

HI, I've noticed what I think is an incorrect behavior of stats::psmirnov function and consequently of ks.test when run in an exact mode. For example: psmirnov(1, sizes=c(50, 50), z=1:100, two.sided = FALSE, lower.tail = F, exact=TRUE) produces 2.775558e-15 However, the exact value should be 1/combination(100, 50), which is 9.9e-30. While the absolute error is small, the relative error is

Dear useRs, I was searching CRAN for implementation of kurtosis and skewness tests, and found that there is some kind of lack on it. So, I have written three functions: 1. Anscombe-Glynn test for kurtosis 2. Bonett-Seier test based on Geary's kurtosis (which is not widely known, but I was inspired by original paper describing it, found coincidentally in Elsevier database) 3.

I am using the non-linear least squares routine in "R" -- nls. I have a dataset where the nls routine outputs tight confidence intervals on the 2 parameters I am solving for. As a check on my results, I used the Python SciPy leastsq module on the same data set and it yields the same answer as "R" for the coefficients. However, what was somewhat surprising was the the

hello R, This is about simulation in psychomtrics in IRT in R. I want to simulate b parameters(item difficulty) with moments of fixed values of mean, st.d, skewness and kurtosis. Is there any specific IRT package in R with those functions to control those moments? I have seen other programs that can control mean and st.d but not skewness and kurtosis. Thank you, helen L [[alternative HTML

Dear R users, I hope to explain the concepts of skewness and kurtosis by generating series of distributions with same skewness and different kurtosis or with same kurtosis and different skewness, but it seems that i cannot find the right functions. I have searched the mailing list, but no answers were found. Is it possible to do that in R? Which function could be used? Thanks a lot. --

Thanks for the response. I was not very clear in my original request. What I am asking is if in a non-linear estimation problem using nls(), as the condition number of the Hessian matrix becomes larger, will the t-values of one or more of the parameters being estimated in general become smaller in absolute value -- that is, are low t-values a sign of an ill-conditioned Hessian? Typical

I wonder whether the functions for skewness and kurtosis in the e1071 package are based on correct formulas. The functions in the package e1071 are: # -------------------------------------------- skewness <- function (x, na.rm = FALSE) { if (na.rm) x <- x[!is.na(x)] sum((x - mean(x))^3)/(length(x) * sd(x)^3) } # -------------------------------------------- and #