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.

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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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