From help-request at octave dot org Sun Sep 25 13:48:55 2005 Subject: Re: Determining if samples are normal From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= To: Bill Denney CC: help at octave dot org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:48:06 +0200 Graphicly? I'm not really an expert in statistics, so I don't really know how to "compare" CDF's. /Søren Bill Denney wrote: > My first thought would be to compare the cumulative distribution > function of your samples and a normally distributed CDF. > > Bill > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Søren Hauberg 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. >> >> Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org >> How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html >> Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------