yogab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello all.,
>
> Iam using mutivariate normality test (Mardia 1974) to check for
> normaility for my sample set of size 1000 (multivariate data).
>
> It seem to pass multivaiate kurtosis testing (higher p value)
> but consistently fails for skewness test. Iam presently using
> sas - 'multinorm' macro. I find this to be little hard to belive or
> rather
> if i can say little inconsistent.
>
> I just wanted to see if any one had the some experience with this test
> in particular or comments about mutivariate testing ? or any
> better way to do mutivariate normality testing ?
>
I'm utterly confused. Why do you think it's inconsistent for it
to reject on skewness and fail to reject on kurtosis?
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Glen
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