In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ludovic Duponchel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If x values have a normal distribution, is there a normal distribution >for x^2 ?
The only transformations one is likely to encounter which preserve normality are linear. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================