mvnorm.skew.test: Test of Multivariate Normality Based on Skewness
Description
Test for multivariate normality which uses as criterion the skewness measured as the difference between
location estimates based on first respectively third moments
Usage
mvnorm.skew.test(X, na.action = na.fail)
Arguments
X
a numeric data frame or matrix.
na.action
a function which indicates what should happen when the data
contain 'NA's. Default is to fail.
Value
A list with class 'htest' containing the following components:
statistic
the value of the test statistic U.
parameter
the degrees of freedom for the statistic U.
p.value
the p-value for the test.
method
a character string indicating what type of test was performed.
data.name
a character string giving the name of the data.
Details
This test implements the multivariate normality test based on skewness measured by two different location estimates
as described in Kankainen, Taskinen and Oja. The choice here is based on the regular mean vector and the location estimate based on
third moments (mean3). The scatter matrix used is the regular covariance matrix.
References
Kankainen, A., Taskinen, S. and Oja, H. (2007),Tests of multinormality based on location vectors and scatter matrices, Statistical Methods and Applications, 16, 357--379.