[R] Question

[Gerrit Eichner]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Matthew Rosett wrote:

> How do I determine if my data deviate from the normal distribution?
> The sample size is 1000 (weights of people).

See

?qqnorm

and/or

?shapiro.test

and/or

a text book on applied statistics

and/or

google for "testing normality".


Hth,

Gerrit

PS: With n = 1000 your data will almost inevitably deviate from the normal 
distribution.