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ShapiroFranciaTest: Shapiro-Francia Test for Normality

Description

Performs the Shapiro-Francia test for the composite hypothesis of normality.

Usage

ShapiroFranciaTest(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector of data values, the number of which must be between 5 and 5000. Missing values are allowed.

Value

A list of class htest, containing the following components:

statistic

the value of the Shapiro-Francia statistic.

p.value

the p-value for the test.

method

the character string “Shapiro-Francia normality test”.

data.name

a character string giving the name(s) of the data.

Details

The test statistic of the Shapiro-Francia test is simply the squared correlation between the ordered sample values and the (approximated) expected ordered quantiles from the standard normal distribution. The p-value is computed from the formula given by Royston (1993).

References

Royston, P. (1993): A pocket-calculator algorithm for the Shapiro-Francia test for non-normality: an application to medicine. Statistics in Medicine, 12, 181--184.

Thode Jr., H.C. (2002): Testing for Normality. Marcel Dekker, New York. (2002, Sec. 2.3.2)

See Also

shapiro.test for performing the Shapiro-Wilk test for normality. AndersonDarlingTest, CramerVonMisesTest, LillieTest, PearsonTest for performing further tests for normality. qqnorm for producing a normal quantile-quantile plot.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
ShapiroFranciaTest(rnorm(100, mean = 5, sd = 3))
ShapiroFranciaTest(runif(100, min = 2, max = 4))
# }