Recently there was a a string of messages on this list relating to
pedestrian modeling, and within that string there was some commentary on
the distorting effects of non-normal variables in regression.
Can anyone recommend a good review article for this problem and related
effects? While non-normality creates some straightforward problems,
particularly in significance testing, I have a (now vague) memory of some
statistical simulation work that suggested that such effects tend to become
markedly smaller with extremely large samples - say of the kind one might
find in a precise national survey.
Thanks in advance for any references that might elaborate on the above.
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