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True. Normal distribution is a way a set of data is distributed. That can never imply independance. Think about a scenario: there is no correlation between gro
by ishadua 12y ago
True. Normal distribution is a way a set of data is distributed. That can never imply independance.
Think about a scenario: there is no correlation between growth in sales revenue and growth in website traffic. But that does not mean that the two datasets are independant.
- christopheraden 12y agoCould you clarify this statement? Independence is defined in terms of distributions (the joint distribution can be split up into a product of marginals), so I'm not sure how "the way a set of data is distributed" and "can never imply independence" jive.