OOPS!
("Why can't the English learn to speak? ... Why in America, they haven't
spoken it for years!" --Prof. Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY. )
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf Turner [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:24 PM
To: Bert Gunter
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] Non-normal residuals.
On 29/10/2009, at 10:48 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
> Folks:
>
> If generalities -- with the attendant risk of occasional specific
> caveats
> and violations -- can be tolerated, then George Box's (paraphrased)
> comments
> of circa 40-50 years ago seem apropos: why do statisticians obsess
> over
> normality, to which most analyses -- i.e. inference (especially from
> balanced designs)-- are robust, when lack of independence of the
> observations is the violation of assumptions that can reeks
Point of order Mr. Chairman. That should be ``wreaks''.
(To ``reek'' is to stink.)
> the greatest havoc on the statistical analysis?
<snip>
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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