A Straight Look at Skew Distributions


Authors: 
Michael Bedwell
Volume: 
31(1)
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2009
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
URL: 
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121620299/PDFSTART
Abstract: 

This article argues that the Normal distribution is often not a good model for anthropomorphic data.

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