Preliminary testing for normality: Some statistical aspects of a common concept

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 757-761

  Schoder, V ^a   Himmelmann, A ^a   Wilhelm, K P ^a  

^a proDERM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMATOLOGY; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDITY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33749853983     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2006.02206.x     Document Type: Article

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