psi.lks.exp.test: Lilliefors test for exponentiality

In GeoBosh/psistat: Statistical Functions for Course Unit Practical Statistics I at the University of Manchester

Description

Performs Lilliefors test for exponentiality.

Usage

psi.lks.exp.test(x, Nsim = 1000, ...)

Arguments

x	vector of observations.
Nsim	number of simulations to perform, see details.
...	other parameters.

Details

psi.lks.exp.test performs a Lilliefors test for exponentiality, i.e. the null hypothesis is that x is a random sample from the exponential distribution with some (unspecified) degrees of freedom.

The p-value is calculated through simulation controlled by the argument Nsim (larger Nsim should give a more reliable value).

todo: remove the '...' argument, it should not be used.

Value

A list with class '"htest"' (modelled after the result of ks.test) containing the following components:

statistic	the value of the test statistic.
p.value	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.
data.name	a character string giving the name(s) of the data.

Note

Since the p-value is calculated through simulation, calling psi.lks.exp.test twice with the same data will not give identical results. The computed p-values should be only slightly different (especially with large Nsim) and will hardly ever lead to contradicting decisions.

If you want the same result each time set the random seed before calling the function to a particular value, say set.seed(1234).

Author(s)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

Examples

psi.lks.exp.test(rexp(10),Nsim=10000)

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