Testing for Normality

✍ Scribed by Henry C. Thode

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Series: Statistics: Textbooks and Monographs 164
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Describes the selection, design, theory, and application of tests for normality. Covers robust estimation, test power, and univariate and multivariate normality. Contains tests ofr multivariate normality and coordinate-dependent and invariant approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE......Page 11
CONTENTS......Page 13
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
PLOTS, PROBABILITY PLOTS AND REGRESSION TESTS......Page 31
TESTS USING MOMENTS......Page 57
OTHER TESTS FOR UNIVARIATE NORMALITY......Page 85
GOODNESS OF FIT TESTS......Page 115
TESTS FOR OUTLIERS......Page 139
POWER COMPARISONS FOR UNIVARIATE TESTS FOR NORMALITY......Page 159
TESTING FOR NORMALITY WITH CENSORED DATA......Page 175
ASSESSING MULTIVARIATE NORMALITY......Page 197
TESTING FOR MULTIVARIATE OUTLIERS......Page 241
TESTING FOR NORMAL MIXTURES......Page 279
ROBUST ESTIMATION OF LOCATION AND SCALE......Page 303
COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES......Page 333
APPENDIX A DATA SETS USED IN EXAMPLES......Page 355
APPENDIX B PARAMETER AND CRITICAL VALUES......Page 371
APPENDIX C FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION COMPUTER SUBROUTINE VARIABLE METRIC METHOD......Page 475
Index......Page 479