Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Page 304: > "One of the principal reasons for presenting the Lilliefors > test is to show how the quantiles in Table 15 were obtained." > > " ... Lilliefors generated random normal deviates on a > high speed computer." > > I wonder what tests are older than that, that use cutoffs > obtained from simulations. And whether this was the first > table generated by a 'high speed computer'. > > By the way, the original references might be unreliable: > Table 15 is "Adapted from Table 1 of Lilliefors (1967), > with corrections." (I wonder, too, how many samples he > generated.)
To my recollection, Lilliefors used n=1000. It is too small a simulation, but probably all he could manage at the time. A larer simulation is very easily performed in a few moments in most stats packages for a given sample size, so we hardly need the tables - it's a few minutes at worst to get the p-value any time we need it. (Less time than it takes to post a message here, I expect, and certainly less time than it takes to get a reply!) Glen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
