Bono et al. (2017), based on reviewing the abstracts of all articles published between 2010 and 2015 and listed on Web of Science, found (N = 262 abstracts reporting non-normal distributions):
In terms of their frequency of appearance, the most-common non-normal distributions can be ranked in descending order as follows: gamma, negative binomial, multinomial, binomial, lognormal, and exponential.
[I read only the abstract and can’t comment on the review’s quality.]
Bono et al. (2017), based on reviewing the abstracts of all articles published between 2010 and 2015 and listed on Web of Science, found (N = 262 abstracts reporting non-normal distributions):
[I read only the abstract and can’t comment on the review’s quality.]