Date:         Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:39:46 +0900
Reply-To:     Keizo Hori <hori@EC.KAGAWA-U.AC.JP>
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From:         Keizo Hori <hori@EC.KAGAWA-U.AC.JP>
Subject:      testing Multivariate normality
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See
http://www.fordham.edu/aps/decarlo.html

dale glaser wrote

>Outside of using a program such as LISREL, and the PRELIS preprocessor which
>provides such a test, if memory serves me well Larry DeCarlo has a macro (I
>believe based on his 1996 Psych. methods article on Kurtosis?) that provides
>statistics such as Mahalanobis Distance, etc....I know he updated his macro,
>which may or may not provide tests of skewness/kurtosis that match the
>recent re-configuration of PRELIS..........however, Larry can best address
>this...you may want to search the SPSS archives to locate the macro...hope
>this helps.....................dale glaser

Kagawa University, Faculty of Economics
Keizo Hori
hori@ec.kagawa-u.ac.jp