An Application of Non-response Bias Reduction Using Propensity Score Methods
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Normal distribution is widely used in many applications. The problem of testing whether observations come from a normal distribution has been studied extensively by many researchers. Our main goal in this article is to present a simple test procedure for testing multivariate normality.
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volume 22 issue 1
pages 53- 61
publication date 2017-12
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