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st: -swilk- , or thought for the day
The Shapiro-Wilk test for normality implemented in Stata's -swilk- is
quite often used.
The journal _Statistical Science_ has on its page of future papers
<http://www.imstat.org/sts/future_papers.html>
the paper "A conversation with Martin Bradbury Wilk" by Christian Genest
and Gordon Brackstone. Dr Wilk was born in 1922 and looks back on a
productive statistical and scientific life.
I thought I would share this exchange with you:
Christian: The 1965 Biometrika paper introducing the Shapiro-Wilk test
statistic is certainly a classic.
Martin: I am obviously pleased with that, but to be truthful I don't
regard this work as such a great accomplishment. I am fond of saying,
significance tests are things to do while one is trying to think of
something sensible to do.
Nick
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