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From	Christian Weiss <[email protected]>
To	[email protected]
Subject	st: REML with non-normally distributed dependent Variable
Date	Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:41:26 +0200

Dear Statalisters,

I am working with a random-intercept model using REML. As it turned
out my dependent variable is not normally distributed.
If I recall it correctly, one of the assumptions of ML is multivariate
normality. Do you have any advice what to do or to consider?

Best regards
Christian
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