normality assumption

Five things you need to know before learning Structural Equation Modeling

By Manolo Romero Escobar

If you already know the principles of general linear modeling (GLM) you are on the right path to understand Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).

As you could see from my previous post, SEM offers the flexibility of adding paths between predictors in a way that would take you several GLM models and still leave you with unanswered questions.

It also helps you use latent variables (as you will see in future posts).

GLM is just one of the pieces of the puzzle to fit SEM to your data. You also need to have an understanding of:
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Checking the Normality Assumption for an ANOVA Model

by Karen Grace-Martin 14 Comments

I am reviewing your notes from your workshop on assumptions. You have made it very clear how to analyze normality for regressions, but I could not find how to determine normality for ANOVAs. Do I check for normality for each independent variable separately? Where do I get the residuals? What plots do I run? Thank you!

I received this great question this morning from a past participant in my Assumptions of Linear Models workshop.

It’s one of those quick questions without a quick answer. Or rather, without a quick and useful answer. The quick answer is:

Do it exactly the same way. All of it.

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