Thanks, Justin! I've checked out whichever help docs I can find, but I've discovered that sometimes a particular "correct" is not always mentioned, even when used in the software.
The reason I'm checking is that I'm a co-author on an R package (LcKS) that implements the Lilliefors correction for the one-sample goodness-of-fit Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test and we're writing a manuscript to accompany it. Apparently the correction is not widely used or known about (outside of the statistical community), and it's a major oversight. (For example, ks.test in R [very subtly] cautions the user about the violation but does not actually offer a fix, and it's not available in base R or 'stats'.) We've discovered many published articles that appear to do the test in the incorrect manner. Our package and manuscript, we hope, will help improve the situation by calling attention to the bias and offering a simple solution. Best wishes, Phil On 1/31/2019 11:46 AM, Justin Bagley wrote: Dear Phil, SAS has excellent support and documentation. Just go to their website at https://support.sas.com/en/documentation.html, type in a search query for the statistical test of interest, and you'll get links to the appropriate section of the SAS/STAT 14.3 User's Guide. Detailed information is given on statements to call different tests. You should be able to quickly find the information you need using this procedure (with a statistics text in hand), and I imagine that similar online documentation resources are available for the other major programs that you mentioned. Nevertheless, all in all, I don't recommend that you go with _any_ of the software programs in your list for statistical analyses of biological data, unless they are the only software programs that implement the test you need. Instead, I suggest that you conduct statistical analyses in the R environment for statistical computing (https://cran.r-project.org) or write bash or Python wrapper scripts around existing programs to conduct your analyses. Is there not an R package that will conduct the test you need to do? Since we received this through MORPHMET, perhaps you could state the question you have about the "particular statistical test" in question in a way that is specific and that relates to morphometrics, and I'm sure that someone would be able to help you out in more detail. Good luck. Best, Justin C. Bagley, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Biology University of Missouri-St. Louis One University Boulevard, 223 Research Building St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 E-mail: bagl...@umsl.edu<mailto:bagl...@umsl.edu> Website: https://justinbagley.org CV: https://justinbagley.org/pages/cv.html Blog: https://justinbagley.rbind.io Affiliate Researcher Department of Biology Virginia Commonwealth University 1000 W Cary St, Rm 126, Richmond, VA 23284-2012 On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:04 AM Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. <pnovack-gottsh...@ben.edu<mailto:pnovack-gottsh...@ben.edu>> wrote: Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting, but I'm not sure where this best lands. I'm trying to find people who have access to (preferably some experience with) any of the following statistical software programs: -MiniTab -SAS -SPSS -S-Plus -STATA -SYSTAT If you do, might you contact me off-list <pnovack-gottsh...@ben.edu<mailto:pnovack-gottsh...@ben.edu>>? I'm trying to find out how each program handles a particular statistical test. My question can likely be answered with a quick check of the help documentation for the software or by running a sample data set I can provide, if interested. 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