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Re: st: analysis of continuous gestational age


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: analysis of continuous gestational age
Date   Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:36:36 +0200

Alo wrote:

What about the idea that we can use linear regression even if the
residuals are
not normally distributed if we have a large dataset? Is there any basis
for
this?

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No, not in the school I went to. You might be thinking of the fact that
with
large datasets even unimportant deviations from normality become
significant, so you should not use significance testing to decide
whether the deviation is important, but rather graphical inspection.

Regardless of dataset size: Gestational age data are not from a normal
distribution; they deviate a lot from that assumption.

Svend
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