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Tips for Recognizing and Transforming Non-Normal Data

Non-normal data is data that does not fall within a normal distribution. You can utilize techniques like the Box-Cox method ...
Forbes

The Distribution Of U.S. Household Income Is Far Beyond ‘Normal’

FILE - In this April 18, 2020, file photo, tents line a sidewalk on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco. Moving to address income inequality on a local level, San Francisco voters passed several tax ...
SFGate

When it comes to finance, ‘normal’ data is actually pretty weird

(THE CONVERSATION) When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those ...
JSTOR Daily

Multiple imputation of unordered categorical missing data: A comparison of the multivariate normal imputation and multiple imputation by chained equations

Missing data are common in survey data sets. Enrolled subjects do not often have data recorded for all variables of interest. The inappropriate handling of them may negatively affect the inferences ...