Error Term Normal Distribution
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is Inference After fitting a model to the data and validating it, scientific or engineering questions about the process are usually answered by another term for normal distribution computing statistical intervals for relevant process quantities using the model. normal distribution error function These intervals give the range of plausible values for the process parameters based on the data and
Standard Error Normal Distribution
the underlying assumptions about the process. Because of the statistical nature of the process, however, the intervals cannot always be guaranteed to include the true process parameters
Margin Of Error Normal Distribution
and still be narrow enough to be useful. Instead the intervals have a probabilistic interpretation that guarantees coverage of the true process parameters a specified proportion of the time. In order for these intervals to truly have their specified probabilistic interpretations, the form of the distribution of the random errors must be known. Although the normal distribution standard deviation form of the probability distribution must be known, the parameters of the distribution can be estimated from the data. Of course the random errors from different types of processes could be described by any one of a wide range of different probability distributions in general, including the uniform, triangular, double exponential, binomial and Poisson distributions. With most process modeling methods, however, inferences about the process are based on the idea that the random errors are drawn from a normal distribution. One reason this is done is because the normal distribution often describes the actual distribution of the random errors in real-world processes reasonably well. The normal distribution is also used because the mathematical theory behind it is well-developed and supports a broad array of inferences on functions of the data relevant to different types of questions about the process. Non-Normal Random Errors May Result in Incorrect Inferences Of course, if it turns out that the random errors in the process are no
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Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Cross Validated Questions Tags t test normal distribution Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Cross Validated is a question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, coefficient of variation normal distribution data mining, and data visualization. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmd/section2/pmd214.htm How does the distribution of the error term affect the distribution of the response? up vote 11 down vote favorite 6 So when I assume that the error terms are normally distributed in a linear regression, what does it mean for the response variable, $y$? regression distributions share|improve this question edited May 27 '11 at 18:37 chl♦ 37.5k6125243 asked May 27 '11 at 16:14 MarkDollar 1,58582747 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/11315/how-does-the-distribution-of-the-error-term-affect-the-distribution-of-the-respo vote 7 down vote accepted Maybe I'm off but I think we ought to be wondering about $f(y|\beta, X)$, which is how I read the OP. In the very simplest case of linear regression if your model is $y=X\beta + \epsilon$ then the only stochastic component in your model is the error term. As such it determines the sampling distribution of $y$. If $\epsilon\sim N(0, \sigma^2I)$ then $y|X, \beta\sim N(X\beta, \sigma^2I)$. What @Aniko says is certainly true of $f(y)$ (marginally over $X, \beta$), however. So as it stands the question is slightly vague. share|improve this answer answered May 27 '11 at 23:07 JMS 3,4651224 I like all comments! And they all seem to be right. But I was just searching for the easiest answer :) What happens when you assume that the errer term is normal distributed. That this occurs now very often in reality gets clear from the other answers! Thanks a lot! –MarkDollar May 29 '11 at 7:57 add a comment| up vote 15 down vote The short answer is that you cannot conclude anything about the distribution of $y$, because it depends on the distribution of the $x$'s and the strength and shape of the relationship. More formally, $y$ will have a "mixture of normals" distribution, which in practice can be pretty much anything. Here are two extreme ex
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for assessing residual normality, we can perform a hypothesis test in which the null hypothesis is that the errors have a normal distribution. A large p-value and hence failure to reject this null hypothesis is a good result. It means that it is reasonable to assume that the errors have a normal distribution. Typically, assessment of the appropriate residual plots is sufficient to diagnose deviations from normality. However, more rigorous and formal quantification of normality may be requested. So this section provides a discussion of some common testing procedures (of which there are many) for normality. For each test discussed below, the formal hypothesis test is written as: \[\begin{align*} \nonumber H_{0}&: \textrm{the errors follow a normal distribution} \\ \nonumber H_{A}&: \textrm{the errors do not follow a normal distribution}. \end{align*}\] Shapiro-Wilk Test The Shapiro-Wilk Test uses the test statistic \[\begin{equation*} W=\frac{\biggl(\sum_{i=1}^{n}a_{i}e_{(i)}\biggr)^{2}}{\sum_{i=1}^{n}(e_{i}-\bar{e})^{2}}, \end{equation*} \] where the \(a_{i}\) values are calculated using the means, variances, and covariances of the \(e_{(i)}\). W is compared against tabulated values of this statistic's distribution. Small values of W will lead to rejection of the null hypothesis. Ryan-Joiner Test The Ryan-Joiner Test is a simpler alternative to the Shapiro-Wilk test. The test statistic is actually a correlation coefficient calculated by \[\begin{equation*} R_{p}=\frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n}e_{(i)}z_{(i)}}{\sqrt{s^{2}(n-1)\sum_{i=1}^{n}z_{(i)}^2}}, \end{equation*}\] where the \(z_{(i)}\) values are the z-score values (i.e., normal values) of the corresponding \(e_{(i)}\) value and \(s^{2}\) is the sample variance. Values of \(R_{p}\) closer to 1 indicate that the errors are normally distributed. The Ryan-Joiner test is available in Minitab: follow the directions for Normal plots (Conducting a Ryan Joiner correlation test) outside of the regression command. To illustrate, he