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Looking for associations between nominal and non-parametric continuous data

I'm a first-year BSc Biology student working on my end-of-module stats project, so that's the expected level of my work. I need to find associations between hindlimb length and frog locomotor modes (e....
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How can I perform a Tetrachoric and Polychoric Correlation on variables that aren't normally distributed?

From everything I have read, both tetrachoric and polychoric correlations assume normal distributions. However, the data I want to conduct these correlations with is not normally distributed. Does ...
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Does aligned rank transform ANOVA require normally distributed data?

Initially, I wanted to do a two-factorial (4x3) repeated measures ANOVA in order to analyse my data. To be more precise, I do have two factors with factor1 having 4 levels (A, B, C, D), factor2 having ...
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Normality Tests in samples with outliers

I'm making a code in R that contains some parametric and non-parametric tests, like ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis. To know if I should use one or another I check the "normality" of the test sample. My ...
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Two-Way Non-Parametric Test for Non-normal Data?

I have an unbalanced design with two factors, gender and site. I'm trying to test for differences in a size variable. Levene's test reveals that the data has equal variances. However, log transformed ...
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Do I need to check for normality in a one-way test (in R)?

http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/one-way-anova-test-in-r Here it says when the LeveneTest has small p-value we can use the alternative one ...
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