Re: Shapiro-Wilks Statistic

Posted by Bruce Weaver on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Shapiro-Wilks-Statistic-tp5739693p5739694.html

Hello Harley.  I copied your syntax, changed F1 to the name of a variable in
the data file I had open, and ran it.  The Tests of Normality table it
generated showed both K-S and S-W tests.  

Why do you want to test for normality?



Baker, Harley wrote

> Colleagues,
>
> I am trying to get the Shapiro-Wilks Statistics and having a difficult
> time in SPSS v27 (Mac; release 27.0.0.0; 64-bit) running on Catalina.
> According to the manual, the following syntax (generated by
> point-and-click methods) should work. It produces the K-S test, but not
> W-S test:
>
> EXAMINE VARIABLES=F1
>   /PLOT BOXPLOT HISTOGRAM NPPLOT
>   /COMPARE GROUPS
>   /MESTIMATORS HUBER(1.339) ANDREW(1.34) HAMPEL(1.7,3.4,8.5) TUKEY(4.685)
>   /PERCENTILES(5,10,25,50,75,90,95) HAVERAGE
>   /STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES EXTREME
>   /CINTERVAL 95
>   /MISSING LISTWISE
>   /NOTOTAL.
>
> What am I doing/not doing such that the Shapiro-Wilks test statistic is
> not produced? What do I do to fix it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Harley
>
> Dr. Harley Baker
> Professor Emeritus of Psychology
> California State University Channel Islands
> One University Drive
> Camarillo, CA 93012

-----
--
Bruce Weaver
[hidden email]
http://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/

"When all else fails, RTFM."

NOTE: My Hotmail account is not monitored regularly.
To send me an e-mail, please use the address shown above.

--
Sent from: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/

=====================
To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the
command. To leave the list, send the command
SIGNOFF SPSSX-L
For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command
INFO REFCARD