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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Pieter Provoost
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:52 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] normality test
Thanks all for your comments and hints. I will try to keep
them in mind.
Since a number of people asked me what I'm trying to do: I
want to apply
Bayesian inference to a simple ecological model I wrote, and
therefore I
need to fit (uniform, normal or lognormal) distributions to
sets of observed
data (to derive mean and sd).
This is false. You do not need to fit anything to "derive mean and sd."
Perhaps you have not clearly stated what you mean.
You probably have noticed that
I'm quite new
to statistics, but I'm working on that...
Pieter
And you want to use Bayesian methods?!
I would strongly recommend that you seek a competent statistician to work
with. To paraphrase Frank Harrell (with appropriate apologies for
misattribution, if necessary), correspondence courses in brain surgery are
not a good idea.