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| Aug 4, 2010 at 22:23 | comment | added | Abhijit | Yes, this is true, but for general regression problems (as opposed to anova or designed problems), X really isn't fixed but are observations from the underlying process. However, for the Poisson case, the point still holds, since mixtures of Poissons aren't necessarily Poisson. | |
| Aug 4, 2010 at 15:28 | comment | added | user28 | Your last point about regression would only be true if X is random. If X is fixed then Y would also be a normal. no? | |
| Aug 4, 2010 at 15:24 | history | answered | Abhijit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |