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Hello, I am interested in looking at the dataset used by Stock and Watson in their "Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Diffusion Indexes (J. of Business and Econ. Statistics, April 2002, pp158-161) or the set used by D'Agostino and Giannone "Comparing Alternative Predictors [...]"(October 2006) in R. Does anyone know if the R-code to retrieve these series from FRED (as

Hi, Does anyone know if the D'agostino test is available with R ? Alex

I have summary statistics from many sets (10,000's) of near-normal continuous data. From previously generated QQplots of these data I can visually see that most of them are normal with a few which are not normal. I have the raw data for a few (700) of these sets. I have applied several tests of normality, skew, and kurtosis to these sets to see which test might yield a parameter which