mardia {dprep} | R Documentation

## The Mardia's test of normality

### Description

Performs the Mardia'st test in order to check multivariate normality

### Usage

    mardia(data)

### Arguments

`data` | The dataset containing the features which multivariate normality is going to be tested

fo the whole data.

### Value

Returns the p-values for the corresponding third and four moments of the multivarute normal distribution.

### Author(s)

Edgar Acuna

### References

Mardia, K.V. (1985). "Mardia's Test of Multinormality," in S. Kotz and N.L. Johnson, eds., Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, vol. 5 (NY: Wiley), pp. 217-221.

### See Also

`vvalen`

### Examples

    #-----Mardia test for supervised data-----
    data(my.iris)
    mardia(my.iris)
    #----Mardia test for unsupervised data-----
    #data(hawkins)
    #mardia(hawkins,superv=F)

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