[R] Non-normal residuals.

[Rolf Turner]

On 29/10/2009, at 10:48 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Folks:
>
> If generalities -- with the attendant risk of occasional specific  
> caveats
> and violations -- can be tolerated, then George Box's (paraphrased)  
> comments
> of circa 40-50 years ago seem apropos: why do statisticians obsess  
> over
> normality, to which most analyses -- i.e. inference (especially from
> balanced designs)-- are robust, when lack of independence of the
> observations is the violation of assumptions that can reeks

	Point of order Mr. Chairman.  That should be ``wreaks''.

	(To ``reek'' is to stink.)

> the greatest havoc on the statistical analysis?

	<snip>

		cheers,

			Rolf Turner

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