Lillietest (H=0 and P=0) : How to interpret this result?

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I run Lilliefors test against my data (lillietest) to see if it comes from the location family of exponential distribution.
[h,p]=lillietest(data,0.05,'exp');
I got H=0 (null hypothesis is accepted) while p is zero. I don't understand how p-value is zero while the null hypothesis is accepted. Can you help me to interpret this result?
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Winning
Winning on 24 Jun 2011
I also noticed that kstat value is NaN while critval is 0.0908.
Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell on 25 Jun 2011
What version of MATLAB do you have? In R2010b, it doesn't seem possible to get kstat=NaN by any means short of setting it in the debugger.

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bym
bym on 23 Jun 2011
Are you sure you are not assigning p to another variable? according to the documentation it should return a value between [.001 .50] unless you use the mctol option.
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Winning
Winning on 24 Jun 2011
I am pretty sure. I also tried to set MCTOL.
>> [h,p]=lillietest(data,0.05,'exp',0.001)
h =
0
p =
0
>> [h,p]=lillietest(data,0.05,'exp',0.0001)
h =
0
p =
0

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