st: Normal Distribution

[Arman Eshaghi <armaneshaghi@aol.com>]

Dear all,


I have a question concerning normal distribution and normal plots. I 
have a=
 sample of 250 subjects with some psychological scores that are not 
normall=
y distributed. With scaled score conversion and cumulative distribution 
fun=
ction I tried to approximate the distribution to normal distribution. 
Howev=
er, kolmogorov-smirnov test is still significant which refutes the 
normalit=
y. Q-Q plots on the other hand show promising results for scaled 
scores. Do=
es my data considered normally distributed in this case? My goal is to 
use =
these scores in discriminant analysis which presumes the data has a 
multiva=
riate normal distribution.=20




All the best,
Arman


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