Residuals and Non-normality

This page will give some tips on aspects of looking at residuals in order to assess non-normality. In particular it will stress how

Consider this very small example:

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The distributions of the variables are very skewed. The distribution of the differences (for a repeated measures t-test) are at least symmetrical, if not normal. [Last updated on 21 September, 2010]


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