A comparison of normality tests using SPSS, SAS and MINITAB: An application to health related quality of life data

ICSSBE 2012 - Proceedings, 2012 International Conference on Statistics in Science, Business and Engineering: "Empowering Decision Making with Statistical Sciences"

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 267-272

  Razali, Nornadiah Mohd ^a   Shamsudin, Norin Rahayu ^a   Maarof, Nur Niswah Naslina Azid ^a   Hadi, Az'lina Abdul ^a   Ismail, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling; HRQoL; Kolmogorov Smirnov; Lilliefors; SF 36; Shapiro Wilk; Test of normality

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON-DARLING; HRQOL; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LILLIEFORS; SF-36; SHAPIRO-WILK; TEST OF NORMALITY;

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICS;

TESTING;

EID: 84872904021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSSBE.2012.6396570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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