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- From: Charles Chamberlin <CHAMBERLINC@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Normal probability plots
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- With respect to the normal probability plot correlation coefficient:
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- The MINITAB Reference Manual also provides a set of citations in support of this
- method, including a technical report by Ryan and Joiner (no date) "Normal
- Probability Plots and Tests for Normality", Statistics Dept., Penn. State Univ.
- Ryan and Joiner demonstrate that this test is "essentially equivalent to the
- powerful Shapiro-Wilk Test W and its approximation W' ..." and also desccribe
- how he test may be extended to other distributional forms.
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