[R] normality testing with nortest

Rolf Turner rolf at math.unb.ca
Mon May 22 12:52:00 CEST 2006


rwan at kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp wrote:

>  	One thing that threw me off (and this is not really specific to 
> Nortest as it seems to be correct, but just my understanding), but the 
> p-value seems quite unstable.  For example:

	....

	It is worth noting that if the null hypothesis is true, then
	the p-value is

		uniformly distributed on [0,1].

	This should be kept in mind when assessing the ``instability''
	of p-values.

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca



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