[R] shapiro wilk normality test

[Johannes Huesing]

Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> [Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:07:37PM CEST]:
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
>> On 13-Jul-08 13:29:13, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> A large P-value means nothing more than needing more data.  No  
>>> conclusion is possible.  Please read the classic paper Absence of  
>>> Evidence is not Evidence for Absence.
>>
[...]
>
> It's real.  Full text is available to all:  
> http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/311/7003/485

The quotation is attributed to the late Carl Sagan who 
seemed to have used it as a strawman argument , see 
http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html.

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