The most powerful multivariate normality test for plant genomics and dynamics data sets

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-126

  Delmail, David ^a   Labrousse, Pascal ^a   Botineau, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

Data matrix; Leptokurtic distribution; Multivariate normality test; R package; Shapiro Francia

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GENOMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANEL DATA; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951953024     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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