| AndersonDarlingTest {DescTools} | R Documentation |
Anderson-Darling Test of Goodness-of-Fit
Description
Performs the Anderson-Darling test of goodness-of-fit to a specified continuous univariate probability distribution.
Usage
AndersonDarlingTest(x, null = "punif", ..., nullname)
Arguments
x |
numeric vector of data values. |
null |
a function, or a character string giving the name of a function, to compute the cumulative distribution function for the null distribution. |
... |
additional arguments for the cumulative distribution function. |
nullname |
optional character string describing the null distribution. |
Details
This command performs the Anderson-Darling test
of goodness-of-fit to the distribution specified by the argument
null. It is assumed that the values in x are
independent and identically distributed random values, with some
cumulative distribution function F.
The null hypothesis is that F is the function
specified by the argument null, while the alternative
hypothesis is that F is some other function.
The procedures currently implemented are for the case of a SIMPLE null hypothesis, that is, where all the parameters of the distribution are known. Note that other packages such as 'normtest' support the test of a COMPOSITE null hypothesis where some or all of the parameters are unknown leading to different results concerning the test statistic and the p-value. Thus in 'normtest' you can test whether the data come from a normal distribution with some mean and variance (which will be estimated from the same data).
The discrepancies can be large if you don't have a lot of data (say less than 1000 observations).
Value
An object of class "htest" representing the result of
the hypothesis test.
Author(s)
Original C code by George Marsaglia and John Marsaglia. R interface by Adrian Baddeley.
References
Anderson, T.W. and Darling, D.A. (1952) Asymptotic theory of certain 'goodness-of-fit' criteria based on stochastic processes. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 23, 193–212.
Anderson, T.W. and Darling, D.A. (1954) A test of goodness of fit. Journal of the American Statistical Association 49, 765–769.
Marsaglia, G. and Marsaglia, J. (2004) Evaluating the Anderson-Darling Distribution. Journal of Statistical Software 9 (2), 1–5. February 2004. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v09/i02
See Also
shapiro.test and all other tests for normality.
Examples
x <- rnorm(10, mean=2, sd=1)
AndersonDarlingTest(x, "pnorm", mean=2, sd=1)