Re: st: non-normal residual

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings Fabio

  I think that this is an outstanding question, especially since there 
is so much conflicting information on this topic. I feel that the 
following article provides an outstanding presentation of this issue and 
some extremely useful information.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NORMALITY
ASSUMPTION IN LARGE PUBLIC
HEALTH DATA SETS
Thomas Lumley, Paula Diehr, Scott Emerson, and Lu Chen

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=paula_diehr

  I would recommend this article to anyone who has contemplated the 
issue of the normality assumption.

Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
See the Stata tidbit of the week at...
http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com

On 2010-04-29 10.19 AM, Fabio Zona wrote:
> Dear statlist
>
> I have a cross-section multiple regression: however,
> - Y is not distributed normally (some say it should be; some say it is not needed! where is the truth? I read residuals must be normally distributed, not the Y...)
> - any tranformation of Y does not allow to approach a normal-distribution
> - beyond Y, residuals are non-normally distributed
>
> Any suggestions on how to handle this situation?
>
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