A graphical tool for assessing normality

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-288

  Hazelton, Martin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling test; Cramer von Mises test; Kernel density estimation; Monte Carlo test; Shapiro Wilk test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242710928     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130032341     Document Type: Article

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