244 questions linked to/from Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?
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### What are some examples of anachronistic practices in statistics?

I am referring to practices that still maintain their presence, even though the problems (usually computational) they were designed to cope with have been mostly solved. For example, Yates' ...
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### When to use simulations?

So this is a very simple and stupid question. However, when I was in school, I paid very little attention to the whole concept of simulations in class and that's left me a little terrified of that ...
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### How to perform a test using R to see if data follows normal distribution

I have a data set with following structure: a word | number of occurrence of a word in a document | a document id How can I perform a test for normal ...
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### Is a distribution that is normal, but highly skewed, considered Gaussian?

I have this question: What do you think the distribution of time spent per day on YouTube looks like? My answer is that it is probably normally distributed and highly left skewed. I expect there is ...
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### Regression when the OLS residuals are not normally distributed

There are several threads on this site discussing how to determine if the OLS residuals are asymptotically normally distributed. Another way to evaluate the normality of the residuals with R code is ...
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### Distribution hypothesis testing - what is the point of doing it if you can't “accept” your null hypothesis?

Various hypothesis tests, such as the $\chi^{2}$ GOF test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson-Darling, etc., follow this basic format: $H_0$: The data follow the given distribution. $H_1$: The data do not ...
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### Appropriate normality tests for small samples

So far, I've been using the Shapiro-Wilk statistic in order to test normality assumptions in small samples. Could you please recommend another technique?
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### Test for finite variance?

Is it possible to test for finiteness (or existence) of the variance of a random variable given a sample? As a null, either {the variance exists and is finite} or {the variance does not exist/is ...
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### Is it meaningful to test for normality with a very small sample size (e.g., n = 6)?

I have a sample size of 6. In such a case, does it make sense to test for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test? I used SPSS. I have a very small sample size because it takes time to get each. ...
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### When does Fisher's “go get more data” approach make sense?

Quoting gung's great answer Allegedly, a researcher once approached Fisher with 'non-significant' results, asking him what he should do, and Fisher said, 'go get more data'. From a Neyman-Pearson ...
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### My distribution is normal; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test doesn't agree

I have a problem with the normality of some data I have: I've done a Kolmogorov test which says it isn't normal with p=.0000, I don't understand: the skewness of my distribution =-.497, and the ...
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### How is Poisson distribution different to normal distribution?

I have generated a vector which has a Poisson distribution, as follows: x = rpois(1000,10) If I make a histogram using hist(x)...
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### What is the difference between the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normality?

What is the difference between the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normality? When will results from these two methods differ?