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Guy Incognito
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My google search just turns up results telling me that one of the assumptions I have to make is that each Y is normal. My question is why do I have to assume its normal. Why does it follow that it has to be normal as opposed to some other distribution? Hope that makes sense.
Edit: I thought about this some more. Is it just as simple as the standard errors for the parameters are computed assuming each Y is normal? If you write it out you can easily see that B1 for example is a linear function of Y1...Yn and thus will be normal.
Edit: I thought about this some more. Is it just as simple as the standard errors for the parameters are computed assuming each Y is normal? If you write it out you can easily see that B1 for example is a linear function of Y1...Yn and thus will be normal.
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