Top "Normal-distribution" questions

The normal distribution is an assumption of many parametric statistical tests, and is typically associated with a Gaussian distribution, often with mean=0 and standard deviation=1. The "bell curve" is the visual, intuitive model for this distribution.

Error in shapiro.test : sample size must be between

I have a vector, in R, with 1521298 points, which have to be tested for normality. I chose the Shapiro-Wilk test, …

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Plot a contour of multivariate normal PDF of a given MVN in MATLAB?

I have a bivariate gaussian I defined as follow: I=[1 0;0 1]; mu=[0,0]; sigma=0.5*I; beta = mvnrnd(mu,sigma,100); %100x2 matrix where …

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shapiro.test(..) cannot deal with more than 5000 data points

In R, the shapiro.test() function cannot run if the sample size exceeds 5000. shapiro.test(rnorm(10^4)) Why is it so ? …

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Creating Gaussian random variable with MATLAB

By using randn function I want to create a Gaussian random variable X such that X ~ N(2,4) and plot this …

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Alternative for scipy.stats.norm.pdf?

Does anyone know of an alternative for scipy.stats.norm.pdf()? I'm hosting my python site on Google App Engine …

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Quantile-Quantile Plot using Seaborn and SciPy

Can anyone give me a way to do a qq plot in Seaborn as a test for normality of data? …

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Multivariate Normal CDF in Python using scipy

In order to calculate the CDF of a multivariate normal, I followed this example (for the univariate case) but cannot …

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Generating random correlated x and y points using Numpy

I'd like to generate correlated arrays of x and y coordinates, in order to test various matplotlib plotting approaches, but …

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Function of qnorm() in R

I have read the documentation on qnorm() but could not really understand what it does. Can you please answer in …

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Calling rnorm with a vector of means

When I call rnorm passing a single value as mean, it's obvious what happens: a value is generated from Normal(10,1). …

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