Accession Number:

AD0857187

Title:

Testing for Normality by Control Bands Digital Computer Program User's Manual and Theory,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY MISSILE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING LAB REDSTONE ARSENAL AL AER OBALLISTICS DIRECTORATE

Personal Author(s):

• Greene, Latricha
• Rich, Nancy

Report Date:

1969-05-29

Pagination or Media Count:

42.0

Abstract:

The Testing for Normality by Control Bands TEN COB digital computer program provides a graphical goodness-of-fit test. It gives a convenient way of judging how well the probability distribution of the observations or data points from a random sample can be approximated by a normal Gaussian distribution. Author

Descriptors:

• (*STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING)
• (*STATISTICAL DATA
• CURVE FITTING)
• STATISTICAL TESTS
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
• LEAST SQUARES METHOD
• SAMPLING
• GRAPHICS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE