This function tests the null hypothesis that the data comes from an exact normal population. This is a much less interesting/useful null than what people usually want, which is to know if the data come from a distribution that is similar enough to the normal to use normal theory inference.
SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest(x)
An object of class "htest" with components:
The p-value
a string representing the alternative hypothesis
a string describing the method
a string describing the name of the data
The data
Greg Snow 538280@gmail.com
The theory for this test is based on the probability of getting a rational number from a truly continuous distribution defined on the reals.
The main goal of this test is to quickly give a p-value for those that feel it necessary to test the uninteresting and uninformative null hypothesis that the data represents an exact normal, and allows the user to then move on to much more important questions, like "is the data close enough to the normal to use normal theory inference?".
After running this test (or better instead of running this and any other test of normality) you should ask yourself what it means to test for normality and why you would want to do so. Then plot the data and explore the interesting/useful questions.
fortune(234)
qqnorm, vis.test
SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest(rt(100,25))
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