This paper is twofold. On the one hand, standpipe water data for small rural communities in Meknes region are studied. 89 villages with population less than 1200 have been probed. In total, about 37000 inhabitants are covered by this study. From the conducted analysis, it appears that the daily per capita water-use rate for the considered population is uniformly distributed with an estimated average of about 10 liter. The lower and the upper 95% confidence bounds placed on this average are 4.3 and 15.9; respectively. Such data can, for example, be useful while planning regional water conveyance systems. On the other hand, the statistical test used in this work is based on the closed form of the Shapiro-Wilk statistic, Wu, made explicit by Cheng and Spiring in the case of uniformly distributed random variables. Even though Wu is computationally simple, its sampling distribution seems to be intractable for arbitrarily sample-size values. On that account, Monte Carlo simulations are run to generate custom quantiles frequently needed in a typical hypothesis testing problem. Then, the study extends and improves the Cheng-Spiring quantile Table 1 for testing for the uniform distribution. It also proposes a simplified and user-friendly graphical support which serves the same task.
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