Re: [R] About normality tests...

2010-06-23 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Finally, FWIW, 1 is not considered "very large" these days; maybe > 10,000,000,000 might be... It's off topic, but I rather like Mike Driscoll's definition of big data: it's too big to fit on a single machine and must be stored on many (http://www.slideshare.net/dataspora/s-4455027). A smal

Re: [R] About normality tests...

2010-06-23 Thread Greg Snow
Before doing normality tests look at fortune(117) and fortune(234). If you still feel the need to have the computer print out a p-value for a test of exact normality, then try SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest in the TeachingDemos package. If you want a test that is more meaningful, then look at v

Re: [R] About normality tests...

2010-06-23 Thread Bert Gunter
elp@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] About normality tests... On 2010-06-23 12:05, Ralf B wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two very large samples of data (1+ data points) and would > like to perform normality tests on it. I know that p< .05 means that > a data set is considered as

Re: [R] About normality tests...

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2010-06-23 12:05, Ralf B wrote: Hi all, I have two very large samples of data (1+ data points) and would like to perform normality tests on it. I know that p< .05 means that a data set is considered as not normal with any of the two tests. I am also aware that large samples tend to lead

Re: [R] About normality tests (2) ...

2010-06-23 Thread Tal Galili
look at: ?qqnorm and ?qqline Examples are in their help. Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com