--- "Lachenbruch, Peter" wrote:
>>> In general, I've found that bad skewness/asymmetry messes up
>>> significance tests more than heavy tails. I know I read this
>>> somewhere long ago, and it seems to work pretty well.
--- Maarten Buis wrote:
>> Interesting, I tried this using a simulation where I use a t-test
>> on a chi-square distribution with 3 degrees of freedom, which is
>> quite skewed, but the t-test seems to perform just fine
--- Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> The two-sided significance level is OK, but the one-sided levels are
> not.
Ah, that makes sense.
Thanks,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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