Preliminary Testing for Normality: Is This a Good Practice?
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Preliminary Testing for Normality: Is This a Good Practice?
Normality is a distributional requirement of classical test statistics. In order for the test statistic to provide valid results leading to sound and reliable conclusions this requirement must be satisfied. In the not too distant past, it was claimed that violations of normality would not likely jeopardize scientific findings Wilcox, 2012a, b). Unfortunately the data obtained in psychological i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1538-9472
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1383278460