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Tests for positively skewed data with large enough samples?

I'm new to statistic tests so I need a little bit of help with them. Most of my data has distribution similar to the histogram below. As it can be seen from the histogram, the data is positively ...
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Testing for normality with small sample sizes in order to use t-test [duplicate]

I run into a conundrum when determining whether a small sample is appropriate for a t-test. I know that if I meet the assumptions, a t-test produces approximately correct inference with any sample ...
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Which statistical analysis should I perform if the data sets are not normally distributed?

I am doing an experiment where there are two independent groups; one is the group of "infected" patients another is the group of "sepsis" patients. I am comparing "platelet monocyte aggregates(PMA)" ...
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Mann-Whitney for non-normal distributions with n>20?

I have 12 groups of datasets (mostly non-Normal, quite right-skewed), and I would like to see if there is a significant difference within each pair. (But the data itself is not a paired dataset, as in ...
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What is a minimum sample size for a paired t-test and what is a non-parametric equivalent if data is non-normal?

I have 4 sample pairs, let's say (x1, y1),...,(x4, y4). What is the minimum sample size for a paired t-test? Which assumption should I check for paired t-test? If my data is non-normal, what is an ...
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