Multinor: A Fortran Program that Assists in Evaluating Multivariate Normality
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Vol. 50 (4) , 845-848
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164490504014
Abstract
Most significance tests require assumptions about how data are distributed. Multivariate procedures and covariance modelling procedures such as LISREL require that data be multivariate normal. Program MULTINOR provides a graphical test of whether data are multivariate normally distributed. Significance tests of multivariate normality are not available in commonly-used statistics packages, and graphical tests are tedious to implement with statistical packages and require access to statistics not readily available for some research problems.Keywords
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