A quick google on 'normality test' (no quotes) gives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality_test. This gives you a few more tests than the KS test.
Cheers, Colin. Steve Lianoglou wrote: > Hi, > > I think you can also use a qq-plot to do the same, no? You won't get a > statistic score + p.value, but perhaps you're more of a visual person? > :-) > > -steve > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Richardson, Patrick > <patrick.richard...@vai.org> wrote: >> ?shapiro.test >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of Noela Sánchez >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:47 PM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Normal distribution >> >> Hi, >> >> I am dealing with how to check in R if some data that I have belongs to a >> normal distribution or not. I am not interested in obtaining the >> theoreticall frequencies. I am only interested in determing if (by means of >> a test as Kolmogorov, or whatever), if my data are normal or not. >> >> But I have tried with ks.test() and I have not got it. >> >> >> -- >> Noela >> Grupo de Recursos Marinos y Pesquerías >> Universidad de A Coruña >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
