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Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Turner [mailto:r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz] 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 ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.