Is That Part of a Statistical Model?

When you're actually doing the statistical testing that's associated with your model, we weaving in other things like what about normality? What about homogeneity of variance? Is that part of the model? And i think at the end of the day, my answer to that is, well, it depends on what's important to you as part of your theory. I have very nearly every calvin in hobbs cartoon memorized. If you gave me the first three panels, i could give you the last one. He makes up the rules as he goes,. But as soon as it's stated, it's a rule.