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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!cbfsb!cbnewsf.cb.att.com!rizzo
  3. From: rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo)
  4. Subject: Re: Testing for Normality
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.143840.21594@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
  6. Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
  7. Organization: AT&T
  8. References: <1992Sep5.064647.15570@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:38:40 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Sep5.064647.15570@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bateman@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Monte Bateman) writes:
  13. >I would like to test data for normality.  The books I have
  14. >access to talk about graphing frequencies on "probability paper".
  15. >
  16. >First off, I don't have any.
  17. >
  18. >Second, it seems that there should be software available 
  19. >to do this test.
  20. >
  21. >Pointers?
  22. >
  23. >Any/all help appreciated!
  24. >
  25. >
  26. >Monte
  27.  
  28. I can offer one little pointer, for what its worth.
  29. Box, Hunter, and Hunter, in "Statistics for Experimenters" (I'm guessing
  30. at the title) give the scale factors with which you can create
  31. your own normal probability paper.
  32.  
  33. Tony
  34.  
  35.