Hi, As part of an R code assingment I have been asked to find a quantitative procedure for assessing whether or not the data are normal? I have previously used the graphical procedure using the qqnorm command. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated as to how I should start going about this! Henry _________________________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
www.rseek.org "normality test" On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Henry Cooper <henry.1986 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:> > Hi, > > > > As part of an R code assingment I have been asked to find a quantitative procedure for assessing whether or not the data are normal? > > > > I have previously used the graphical procedure using the qqnorm command. > > > > Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated as to how I should start going about this! > > > > Henry > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student Department of Psychology Dalhousie University Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: http://tinyurl.com/mikes-public-calendar ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~
Hi, As part of an R code assingment I have been asked to find a quantitative procedure for assessing whether or not the data are normal? I have previously used the graphical procedure using the qqnorm command. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated as to how I should start going about this! Henry _________________________________________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Henry Cooper <henry.1986 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:> As part of an R code assingment I have been asked to find a quantitative procedure for assessing whether or not the data are normal? > > I have previously used the graphical procedure using the qqnorm command. > > Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated as to how I should start going about this!There are many tests for that; see, for instance, ?shapiro.test Also, search the archives of this list. Paul