Timeline for Appropriate to fit lognormal model to data with heavy tail?
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| May 11, 2020 at 16:45 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2020 at 20:43 | answer | added | Laura | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 20:11 | comment | added | EdM | Please say why you care about having a normal distribution for these data. If you are simply describing the data there's no need. If this is for use in something like a regression model, what matters is the distribution of residuals around the model fit, not the data values per se. Even then, much can be accomplished without normally distributed residuals. See this page, for example. | |
| Feb 13, 2020 at 20:10 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ |
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| Feb 13, 2020 at 19:15 | history | asked | user3397113 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |