Where are the 0's that concern you? Are they in the response variable(s) or the potential explanatory variable(s)? If the latter, it's not a problem. If the former, it is.
hope this helps. spencer graves
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Hi Sirs and Madams.
My question is more statistical than related with the use of R software and I hope it will not seems so silly and elemental. I'm analyzing a set of data of some soil organism collected in diferent landscapes, soils taxa, and depths. The sample was performed thinking in a factorial structure with four factors: Specie, Landscape, Soil and Depth. Because not all the species appear in each sample there are so many zeros in the matrix data.
Checking the normal distribution I'm not sure If I must check it in the original sample data (without zeros) or in the big matrix with zeros. In the first case there is a normal distribution (W = 0,85) but in the second it is not (W = 0,45). In which data must I check distribution?, Can I proceed to perform a Parametric ANOVA?.
Thanks
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