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STATISTICAL EDUCATION

Preliminary Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Normality do not Validate the One-Sample Student t

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Pages 2275-2286 | Received 07 Oct 2005, Accepted 17 Mar 2006, Published online: 08 Dec 2006

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