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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bu.edu!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!news.yale.edu!mars.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!cunyvm!psuvm!auvm!FRANKSTON.COM!MEREDITH_WARSHAW
  2. From: Meredith_Warshaw@FRANKSTON.COM
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
  4. Subject: Re: Normal probability plots
  5. Message-ID: <199211172116.AA27875@world.std.com>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 20:16:00 GMT
  7. Sender: "STATISTICAL CONSULTING" <STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET>
  8. Lines: 7
  9. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  10.  
  11. Ralph D'Agostino, chair of the stats department at Boston University,
  12. has written a book on testing distributions (no, I don't know the reference
  13. off-hand, and it's an expensive book).  At a short course I attended, he
  14. stated quite emphatically that the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was not good
  15. for the purpose of testing for normality.  Not having my notes handy,
  16. however,
  17. I can't provide his recommendation for alternative tests.
  18.