[R] normality test

[Berton Gunter]

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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