Was Quetelet’s Average Man Normal?

DOI10.1080/00031305.2019.1706635MaRDI QIDQ5869296zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eugene D. Gallagher

Publication date 28 September 2022

Published in The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1706635

zbMATH Keywords

tiesroundingMatlabStiglerJarque-BeraD'Agostino-Pearson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• emdbook
• AS 181

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