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  2. From: chaas@coe.drexel.edu (Chuck Haas)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  4. Subject: Re: Robust chi-squared routine?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec11.145159.6598@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
  6. Date: 11 Dec 92 14:51:59 GMT
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  15. Under conditions that you described, certainly except for the far tails,
  16. the distribution should be reasonably well approximated by a normal
  17. distribution.  Perhaps someone else has a reference to the numerical
  18. conditions under which such approximation is "sufficiently close".
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  23. Charles N. Haas
  24. Professor, Environmental Engineering
  25. Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104
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  27. CHaas@COE.Drexel.Edu
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