mardia {dprep}R Documentation

The Mardia's test of normality

Description

Performs the Mardia'st test in order to check multivariate normality

Usage

mardia(data)

Arguments

data The dataset containing the features which multivariate normality is going to be tested

fo the whole data.

Value

Returns the p-values for the corresponding third and four moments of the multivarute normal distribution.

Author(s)

Edgar Acuna

References

Mardia, K.V. (1985). "Mardia's Test of Multinormality," in S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, vol. 5 (NY: Wiley), pp. 217-221.

See Also

vvalen

Examples

#-----Mardia test for supervised data-----
data(my.iris)
mardia(my.iris)
#----Mardia test for unsupervised data-----
#data(hawkins)
#mardia(hawkins,superv=F)

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