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### Does linear regression assume all variables (predictors and response) to be multivariate normal? [duplicate]

I stumbled on this really nice blog. http://www.statisticssolutions.com/assumptions-of-linear-regression/ It has mentioned- "the linear regression analysis requires all variables to be multivariate ...
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### How is Y Normally Distributed in Linear Regression [duplicate]

I understand that $y_{i}$s are normally distributed because we assume that the residual is normally distributed which seems a decent assumption. Question: Does that mean $Y$ is also normally ...
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### Normality test and Outlier detection [duplicate]

In this question, I would like to ask two things: outlier detection normality test Details are as follows: I need to detect and remove outliers in my data. Before doing that, I want to test if my ...
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### Non-normal observations in regression modelling [duplicate]

I read an article that says the dependent variables in a regression model must be normally distributed. The way i understand it, is that the observations for the regression model must then be normally ...
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### Non-normal data and non-parametric tests [duplicate]

I have two non-normal variables (one DV, one IV) and a few 7-point Likert scale IVs (normally distributed). The non-normal variables are centrality scores from network analysis - DV is from the ...
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### panel data model [duplicate]

Good Morning, I have a doubt. I am doing a panel data model to calculate the benchmarking of some companies in the sector. is there any test that I can apply to know if I use fixed or random effects? ...
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### Skewed response variable LM [duplicate]

I have a positive asymmetric response variable in a regression model. One of the assumptions about linear model is that the stochastic component of the model is normally distributed. If I have a ...
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### ANOVA assumption normality/normal distribution of residuals

The Wikipedia page on ANOVA lists three assumptions, namely: Independence of cases – this is an assumption of the model that simplifies the statistical analysis. Normality – the distributions of the ...
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### How does linear regression use the normal distribution?

In linear regression, each predicted value is assumed to have been picked from a normal distribution of possible values. See below. But why is each predicted value assumed to have come from a normal ...
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### Why Normality assumption in linear regression

My question is very simple: why we choose normal as the distribution that error term follows in the assumption of linear regression? Why we don't choose others like uniform, t or whatever?