Diagnosis: Your data is not “normal”

“Let’s assume a normal distribution …”  Ugh!  That was your first mistake.  Why do we make this assumption?  It can’t be because we want to be able to mentally compute standard deviations, because we can’t and don’t it that way in practice.  No, we assume a normal distribution to simplify [...]

Diagnosis: Your data is not “normal” was published on SAS Voices by Leo Sadovy