[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Wogan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I agree with what you say. When I was teaching introductory statistics, > the only test for *normality* that I found was a chi square test. Are > there others that you know of?
There are many dozens at least, all better than the chi-square. However, the big question is, why would you want to do a hypothesis test of normality? It's almost always not telling you what you need to know, which is usually more related to "how much effect does the degree of non-normality in my data have on my conclusions?". Hypothesis tests are a terrible way to answer that sort of question. Glen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
