--- On Mon, 9/11/09, Christian Weiß wrote:
> However, I thought - and please forgive me citing wikipedia at this
> point - that calculation of the Confidence Interval assumes a normal
> distribution?
The dangers of Wikipedia: It is incorrect in this case, or at least
misleading: The normality assumption refers to the residuals and _not_
the dependent variable. This is what I attempted to say in my previous
post.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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