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Tests for Normality and Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis: Their Place in Research Reporting
Abstract
Even though research interest is typically greatest for questions pertaining to central tendency and, to a lesser degree, variability, knowledge about the nature of a measure or variable is impoverished when information about the shape of the frequency distribution is ignored. This paper makes the point that descriptive and inferential measures of non-normality should be a routine part of research reporting, along with graphic displays of the frequency distribution of important variables. This point is especially true for research involving measures with non-arbitrary metrics where the shape of the distribution is not affected by measurement artifacts.
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- Authors
- Hopkins, K. D., & Weeks, D. L.
- Venue
- Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1990-12
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 717-729
- ISSN
- 0013-1644 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3888
- OpenAlex
- W1994521026
- Cited by
- 324
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 1.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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