<p>We get questions about the normality of residuals from models, e.g., <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/368313/1352">Dependent variable - bimodal?</a> Often, as in this example, it turns out that the OP wants to perform inference on model parameters and believes that residuals need to be normally distributed for inference to be valid.</p>

<p>I would have expected to find a highly voted question in the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/normality-assumption" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;normality-assumption&#39;" rel="tag">normality-assumption</a> tag that I could use to VTC as a duplicate, but I couldn't find it.</p>

<p>Where is our canonical answer to questions about normality of residuals and inference?</p>
