> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pieter Provoost > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] normality test > > Thanks all for your comments and hints. I will try to keep > them in mind. > Since a number of people asked me what I'm trying to do: I > want to apply > Bayesian inference to a simple ecological model I wrote, and > therefore I > need to fit (uniform, normal or lognormal) distributions to > sets of observed > data (to derive mean and sd).
This is false. You do not need to fit anything to "derive mean and sd." Perhaps you have not clearly stated what you mean. >You probably have noticed that > I'm quite new > to statistics, but I'm working on that... > > Pieter > And you want to use Bayesian methods?! I would strongly recommend that you seek a competent statistician to work with. To paraphrase Frank Harrell (with appropriate apologies for misattribution, if necessary), correspondence courses in brain surgery are not a good idea. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
