Herman Rubin wrote:
> and until recently,
> scientists believed that their models could be exactly right.
but, as you wrote in another context
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3 Oct 1998 08:07:23 -0500;
Message-ID:6v57ib$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Normality is rarely a tenable hypothesis. Its usefulness as a means
of deriving procedures is that it is often the case, as in
regression, that the resulting procedure is robust in the sense of
having desirable properties without it, while nothing better can be
done uniformly."
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