MVN: An R Package for Assessing Multivariate Normality

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Overview

The MVN R package provides a comprehensive framework for assessing multivariate normality, a key assumption in many parametric multivariate statistical methods such as:

Multivariate normality assessment is critical, and no single method is universally optimal. MVN combines several numerical and graphical tools to offer reliable evaluations across diverse scenarios.


Features


Installation

To install the latest version from CRAN:

install.packages("MVN")

To install the development version from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("selcukorkmaz/MVN")

Usage Example

library(MVN)

# Run MVN tests and diagnostics on iris data
result <- mvn(
  data = iris[1:50, 1:3],
  mvn_test = "hz"
)

# View results
summary(result)

Web Application

A web-based graphical user interface is available here: http://biosoft.erciyes.edu.tr/app/MVN

Citation

Korkmaz S, Goksuluk D, Zararsiz G. MVN: An R Package for Assessing Multivariate Normality. The R Journal. 2014; 6(2):151-162. https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2014-2/korkmaz-goksuluk-zararsiz.pdf