Hello guys, I received some data set from my professor to run some tests in our course. When I selected normality tests as usual only Kolmogorov-Smirnov is showing, while Shapiro-Wilk is not. Could you tell me what it means?

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To get both K-S and Shapiro-Wilk, check the "Normality plots with tests" box in the Plots subdialog box using Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Explore or run the equivalent syntax

EXAMINE VARIABLES=salary

/PLOT NPPLOT.

You can also get the Anderson-Darling test from the Simulation procedure

https://www.spss-tutorials.com/spss-shapiro-wilk-test-for-normality/

Try that and see if that works for you

I am also facing the same problem, even after following the steps mentioned in the tutorial. Can you help?

Read the next item. Shapiro-Wilks does not appear with the histogram in Frequencies - you would get it from Explore

yes, i am following -- Analyze > Descriptive Statistics > Explore. "Plots > Normality plots with tests".

You should see a table with the K-W and S-W tests displayed. I don't know of any reason that it would not appear. However, you can use the Simulation procedure to get the Anderson-Darling normality test.

In case anyone may still be interested, I think the answer for this question lies in the sample size. Shapiro-Wilk works with sample sizes to a particular threshold above which SPSS does not calculate S-W. I have not determined that threshold, but for a dataset of 25,000 entries, only S-K was calculated. Hope this helps!

I have the same problem. Dataset of around 11000. S-W is not shown...