Wouldn't that be because the sample is not being compared to a specific distribution but rather to many possible distributions by MC? [1]
If you think that need not be the case, perhaps you can write your own test... but then it will probably be answering a different question? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%E2%80%93Wilk_test On September 2, 2024 4:26:17 PM PDT, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >In ?shapiro.test, there seems to be no option to pass mean and sd >information of the Normal distribution which I want to compare my >sample data to. > >For example in the code below, I want to test my sample to N(0, 10). > >shapiro.test(rnorm(100, mean = 5, sd = 3)) > >Is there any way to pass the information of the benchmark normal distribution? > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.