[R] Testing normality

Dietrich Trenkler Dietrich.Trenkler at uni-osnabrueck.de
Thu Nov 29 12:34:20 CET 2007


pedrosmarques at portugalmail.pt schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing kolmogorv-smirnov test but I don't know what conclusions to take, I want to know if my data has a normal distribution:
>
>   
>> ks.test(dados1,"pnorm")
>>     
>
>         One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
>
> data:  dados1 
> D = 0.972, p-value < 2.2e-16
> alternative hypothesis: two-sided 
>
> Warning message:
> cannot compute correct p-values with ties in: ks.test(dados1, "pnorm") 
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pedro Marques
>
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>   
Your approach amounts to testing if  dados1 is a sample from a standard 
normal distribution.
Is that what you want?

Regards

D. Trenkler

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