Re: dependent var

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From: Randy D. Tobias
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 19:18

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In article <STAT-L%92011312132071@VM1.MCGILL.CA>,
HSU%CHES.CS.VIMS.EDU@VM1.MCGILL.CA writes:
|> Can anyone tell me why dependent variable cannot have many zeroes?
|> Thank you in advance for your help.
|>
|> Yake

Hard to say without a little more information, but in linear modelling
too many zeros means the normality assumptions behind tests and things
are far from correct.  Too many zeros makes you think twice about the
random mechanism which is assumed to have generated the data.

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Randy Tobias                 SAS Institute Inc.
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 ... just my $(-exp(2*sqrt(-1)*arcos(0))/(((2**(2 + 1)) - 1)**2 + 1)).

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