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Re: st: xtmixed for non-parametric outcome


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: xtmixed for non-parametric outcome
Date   Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:34:30 +0000

The nature of your outcome isn't clear beyond an assertion that it is
not normally distributed. Even that need not be a problem as the
marginal distribution of the response is often of secondary
importance.

In a simpler situation, suppose x is uniformly distributed and y is
generated by a + bx + normal error with mean 0 and some variance.

Is it better for the variance to be very small, so that the marginal
distribution of y is approximately uniform?

Or for it to be very large so that the marginal distribution is closer
to normal?

In your case, you might consider a transformation of the response.

On a related note, I don't think data are best described as
non-parametric; there are techniques so described, but in either case
the term is not informative. (Arguably, the best such techniques do
estimate some parameter such as probability(Y > X).)

Nick
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nikolaos Pandis <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to run random effects model for continuous data with 3 categorical predictors (xtmixed).
> My outcome is not normally distributed and neither are the residuals after fitting the model.
> Question: is anyone aware of any Stata commands for non-parametric correlated data.
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