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G.Assessing the Assumption of Normality
There are two general circumstances in multivariate
statistics under which the assumption of multivariate
normality is crucial:
- the technique to be used relies directly on the raw
observations Xj
~
- the technique to be used relies directly on sample
mean vector X
(including those which rely on
~j
-1(X – ))
distances of the form n(X
–
)’S
~
~ ~ ~ ~
In either of these situations, the quality of inferences
to be made depends on how closely the true parent
population resembles the assumed multivariate
normal form!
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