I thought so, but then I found this:
"Normality

The assumption of normality states that the error terms at every level of
the model are normally distributed"

maybe I misinterpreted something.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:50 PM, srecko joksimovic wrote:
>
> > I have an example of multilevel analysis with 3 levels, but data are
> > non-normally distributed. In case of normal distribution, I would perform
> > multilevel linear analysis using lme function, but what should I do in
> case
> > of non-normal distribution?
> >
>
> But normal distribution is not a requirement for linear models. Please
> review your theory.
>
> > thanks,
> > Srecko
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