Sentence examples for multivariate normality assumption from inspiring English sources

The multivariate normality assumption was confirmed by normal quantile-quantile plots of residuals.

The multivariate normality assumption was also retained.

However, according to Bollen (1989), ML is robust against violations of the multivariate normality assumption with large sample sizes, which may be the case in this analysis.

Second, I exploit the multivariate normality assumption to generate log daily wages for worker (i) in year (t + h) conditional on his observed wage in year (t), the relevant censoring daily bounds and a value for the correlation coefficient (rho ).

Second, ML is robust against violations of the multivariate normality assumption and consistently yields efficient estimation when sample sizes are sufficiently large (Anderson and Gerbing 1988; Diamantopoulos and Siguaw 2000).

The MLR estimator was chosen over the maximum likelihood estimator because it adjusts the standard errors of the parameter estimates when the data do not meet the multivariate normality assumption, which is often the case with binary and ordinal manifest variables (Li 2016).

A possible reason that EMI and SVDI were less accurate than RFI and kNNI is that the genotypic datasets that we used may have violated multivariate normality, an underlying assumption for EMI and SVDI.

The skewness and kurtosis values indicated that the scales were relatively normally distributed thus satisfying the normality assumption in multivariate analysis.

Given the assumption of multivariate normality in SEM, this could pose a problem.

Based on this simple model, the likelihood of the pedigree data was calculated under the assumption of multivariate normality.

It is non-parametric (or semi-parametric for multi-factor models) and, therefore, robust to the assumption of multivariate normality making it less prone to Type I errors.