242 questions linked to/from Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?
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### Fitting data to a log-normal distribution [duplicate]

For a simulation study I've been trying to find an appropriate distribution for job handling times in R. I have a very large dataset of 77010 records (handling time in seconds). I've been exploring ...
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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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### Is the practice of doing normality test before doing t test wrong? [duplicate]

When I read research papers, I saw that many people do a normality test first, then decide if a t-test or a non-parametric test should be applied. I have a concern about such practice. Let’s say the ...
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### Is it possible to test for a Gaussian distribution? [duplicate]

Suppose that I have $n$ independent samples from a probability distribution. I believe that the distribution is Gaussian ($G$) but I don't know; then my question is: does there exist a test such that ...
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### Why according to distribution graph it's normally distributed, but Jarque-Bera test shows non-normally distributed? [duplicate]

I am working on Kaggle's house pricing exercise and I cannot understand something. I watch and read articles on normality tests, and more specifically JB test, but I cannot understand why according to ...
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### Normality test with p-value equal to zero [duplicate]

I have an array dataset of about 650.000 points. I want to test if the dataset follow a normal distribution or any other distribution. The first thing I did was to split the data in groups, find the ...
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### What is exactly the non-normality requisite for nonparametric tests? [duplicate]

As the title says, what is exactly what is being tested before deciding to use a non-parametric alternative test (as Kruskal-Wallis for ANOVA, or Mann-Whitney's U for student's t)? Most sources are ...
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### How to verify assumptions of a normal distribution? [duplicate]

I'm working with the iris data.I made a density plot And a qq plot For sepal Length.It looks Approximately normal With the left skew And a flat peak The points In the qq Plot Stay within The ...
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### If the data is not normally distributed and the skewness is = 0.208 SE of skewness is 0.144 , is it acceptable to use t-test? [duplicate]

The sample size is 288 and by Shapiro- Wilk test the data is not normally distributed.
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### Usefulness of rejecting null in normality test [duplicate]

In this Stackoverflow answer Ian Fellows said, Normality tests don't do what most think they do. Shapiro's test, Anderson Darling, and others are null hypothesis tests AGAINST the the ...
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### testing normality for a two way anova, residuals as well as each sample? [duplicate]

to test a two way ANOVA do you have to test each sample for normality as well as normality for the residuals?
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### What are common statistical sins?

I'm a grad student in psychology, and as I pursue more and more independent studies in statistics, I am increasingly amazed by the inadequacy of my formal training. Both personal and second hand ...
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### Are large data sets inappropriate for hypothesis testing?

In a recent article of Amstat News, the authors (Mark van der Laan and Sherri Rose) stated that "We know that for large enough sample sizes, every study—including ones in which the null hypothesis of ...