Hi all,

I have some data. I'd like to check whether each of my datasets is normally distributed.

Because of virtues 1 and 2, I'd like to find a module that implements one of the normality test algorithms, rather than doing it myself.

I've looked on CPAN but can't find anything suitable. The R library has some suitable routines in nortest (PDF) but I'm not looking forward to trying to use those from Perl (Statistics::R) or writing a C wrapper to use them from PDL (PDL::PP).

Or of course I could just code the routine myself... my stats is pretty rusty though and there's a fair chance I'd screw it up somehow.

Does anyone have any easier options for me?

Best wishes, and happy weekend to one and all,
andye

In reply to Stats: Testing whether data is normally (Gaussian) distributed by andye

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