Thx for the clarification and for rescueing me from evil Wikipedia ;)
best
Christian
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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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