At 11:45 AM 6/1/2010, Kourosh Ks wrote:
Dears
When normality test violate and sample size is large(n=400) can I use t-test?
best gards kourosh

Generally "yes", unless there is something really pathological about the distribution.

You should note that, for n = 400, even the simplest distribution-free tests should have near perfect power, so which test you use is not important.

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