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The most common activity in research is the comparison of two groups. The t-test is robust to departures from normally for moderate tailed, symmetric distributions. When the data come from a heavy tailed distribution, even one that is symmetric, the two-sample t-test may not perform as designed.
Management decisions are affected by left-censored observations because they impact not only the estimation of statistical parameters but also inferential statistics. This post presents statistically robust procedures to analyze censored data that make no assumptions or use of arbitrary values.