Dear Gopal,

Maybe you can look into MCMCglmm?
MCMCglmm can take a lot of error distributions into account.

thanks,
Manabu

On 15 March 2017 at 10:24, Gopal Murali <goopaalmur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
> I am trying to fit a regression model using a dataset containing dependent
> variable as a percentage (arcsine transformed) and a categorical
> independent variable controlled for phylogeny using PGLS. Following the
> post below, I found the normality of the residuals to be non-normal as the
> data is right skewed (zero-inflated). Is there any way to overcome this
> issue?
> http://blog.phytools.org/2013/02/a-comment-on-distribution-
> of-residuals.html
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gopal Murali
>
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