Re: Determining if samples are normal

[Joe Koski]

Soren,

Also take a look at the NIST Handbook,

  http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/prc/section2/prc21.htm

for the textbook ways of doing this. I know that both the Chi-square an
Kolmogorov-Smirnov (ks) tests are implemented in octave-forge.

Joe


on 9/25/05 11:59 AM, Søren Hauberg at address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anybody know how I can test wether or not some samples are normaly
> distributed? I tried graphical methods, such as looking at histograms
> and qqplots, but I don't trust my own judgement enough to use graphical
> methods.
> 
> /Søren
> 
> 
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