[R] shipro.test

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Korponai János <korponai at georgikon.hu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am newby to R. I run this test (shapiro.test(rt(2000,30))) (R : Copyright 
> 2001, The R Development Core Team Version 1.3.1  (2001-08-31)) for several 
> times and results were different.
> Why do the shapiro.test produce different outputs?

Because you are calling it with different random samples from the t
distribution! Look at help(rt), or just do rt(10,30) a couple of
times. 

BTW, you should get a newer version. 1.6.2 is current.


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