Message-ID: <29cf68350612151527t2d7fd565k10242d7064b38f47@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2006-12-15T23:27:16Z
From: R. Villegas
Subject: ks.test "greater" and "less"
In-Reply-To: <45828599.2020504@web.de>
2006/12/15, Carmen Meier <carmei3 at web.de>:
> Hello r-group
> I have a question to the ks.test.
> I would expect different values for less and greater between data1 and
> data2.
> Does anybody could explain my point of misunderstanding the function?
>
> data1<-c(8,12,43,70)
> data2<- c(70,43,12,8)
>
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm")
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm",alternative ="less") #expected < 0.001
> ks.test(data1,"pnorm",alternative ="greater") #expected =1
>
>
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm")
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm",alternative ="less") #expected =1
> ks.test(data2,"pnorm",alternative ="greater") #expected < 0.001
>
>
> With regards Carmen
>
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Possible you are unable to use the Kolmogorov?Smirnov test given that
the sample size is small.