Predictors, responses and residuals: What really needs to be normally distributed?

February 18, 2013
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(This article was first published on Are you cereal? » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

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

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