Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Nonnormality is sometimes overcome through variable transformation.
2. When problems of nonnormality cannot be resolved adequately, analysts should consider nonparametric alternatives to the t-test.
3. Analysts should always examine the robustness of their findings.
4. All t-tests first test for equality of means and then test for equality of variances.
5. The paired samples t-test tests the null hypothesis that the mean difference between the before and after test scores is zero.


1.true
2.true
3.true
4.false
5.true

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