[R] 2.2e-16 a magic number? ks.test help

2008-04-18 Thread Ashton, Gail
Hello, I'm trying to test my data for normality. I enter the data (95ish species counts) run >ks.test (data,pnorm) and get a p- value <2.2e-16 But this seems to be the p-value no matter what the data I enter. (I have multiple datasets and am testing them all for normality). [Actually, I just ente

[R] Comparing kendall's tau values?

2008-04-22 Thread Ashton, Gail
I have 3 variables relating to the successful introductions of species to 95 different areas: introduction frequency; number of successes pre 1906; number of successes post 1906 The data are not normal, nor homo-skedatic, so I am using non-parametric statistics. I have calculated Kendall's tau be