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Hi all, Is it possible to have a test value for assessing the normality of residuals from a linear regression model, instead of simply relying on qqplots? I've tried to use fitdistr to try and fit the residuals with a normal distribution, but fitdsitr only returns the parameters of the distribution and the standard errors, not the p-value. Am I missing something? Cheers, Federico

Hello, I have consciously avoided using step() for model simplification in favour of manually updating the model by removing non-significant terms one at a time. I'm using The R Book by M.J. Crawley as a guide. It comes as no surprise that my analysis does proceed as smoothly as does Crawley's and being a beginner, I'm struggling with what to do next. I have a model: lm(y~A * B *