Warr, Richard L.; Erich, Roger A. - In: The American Statistician 67 (2013) 4, pp. 242-244
We discourage the use of a diagnostic for normality: the interquartile range divided by the standard deviation. This statistic has been suggested in several introductory statistics books as a method to assess normality. Through simulation, we explore the rate at which this statistic converges to...