MPQ {ellipticalsymmetry} R Documentation

## Test for elliptical symmetry by A. Manzotti, F. J. Pérez, and A. J. Quiroz.

### Description

Test for elliptical symmetry based on the averages of spherical harmonics.

### Usage

MPQ(X, epsilon = 0.05)


### Arguments

 X A numeric matrix. epsilon A value which indicates the proportion of points close to the origin which will not be used in the calculation. Default is set to 0.05.

### Value

An object of class "htest" containing the following components:

 statistic The value of the test statistic. pvalue The p-value of the test. alternative A character string describing the alternative hypothesis. method A character string indicating what type of test was performed.

### Background

Test for elliptical symmetry based on spherical harmonics of degrees 3 and 4. The test statistic involves the averages of spherical harmonics over the projections of the scale residuals on the unit sphere. This test requires moments of order 4, it has a simple asymptotic distribution but does not have asymptotic power 100% against all alternatives.

### References

Manzotti, A., Perez, Francisco J., & Quiroz, Adolfo J. (2002). A statistic for testing the null hypothesis of elliptical symmetry. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 81(2), 274-285.

### Examples


## sepal width and length of the versicolor subset of the Iris data
X = datasets::iris[51:100,1:2]

MPQ(X)



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