[R] normality test
Berton Gunter
gunter.berton at gene.com
Thu Apr 28 18:26:02 CEST 2005
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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.
-- 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
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