normality test
-----Original Message----- 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box