Nature and assumption of the Normal Distribution

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  In many in stances, because of the nature of dependent variables used in research, a bivariate normal distribution is very questionable. And in some cases assuming such a distribution clearly is not reasonable.

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  In this sense, philosophically speaking, the normal distribution represents one of the empirically verified elementary "truths about the general nature of reality," and its status can be compared to the one of fundamental laws of natural sciences.

• Normal distribution, exponential & Poisson distributions

  Every normal distribution is a version of the standard normal distribution whose domain has been stretched by its standard deviation and then translated by the mean value.

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  Nonparametric tests are often used in place of their parametric counterparts when the distributional assumption, usually the normal distribution assumption, is questionable AND the sample size is small, say less than 30.

• Nature of the observed data and mild and extreme outliers

  BUT - While you can use the assumption of normal distribution to find the probability of an actual outlier, I don't see that you can make the kind of prediction suggested by Question 2 above.

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• Testing assumption of normality / estimated STDEV for sample

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