[R] Looking for a test of standard normality

Pascal Oettli kridox at ymail.com
Fri Nov 9 07:07:46 CET 2012


I would suggest reading the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7781798/seeing-if-data-is-normally-distributed-in-r

Regards,
Pascal


Le 09/11/2012 09:23, Herschtal Alan a écrit :
> Dear list members,
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> I am looking for a goodness of test that will tell me if a sample is
> likely to have come from a standard normal distribution. I can find
> plenty of omnibus tests for normality in the nor.test package, but none
> of them appear to allow me to test against the specific alternative that
> the data are not standard normal. My back up option is to use a
> Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, but my impression is that that is not a very
> powerful test. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Herschtal
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