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Introduction Many scientists are concerned about normality or non-normality of variables in statistical analyses. The following and similar sentiments are often expressed, published or taught: "If you want to do statistics, then everything needs to be normally distributed." "We normalized … Continue reading To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: Are you cereal? » R.
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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