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CHAPTER13<br />

NONPARAMETRIC AND<br />

DISTRIBUTION-FREE<br />

STATISTICS<br />

CHAPTER OVERVIEW<br />

This chapter explores a wide variety of techniques that are useful when the<br />

underlying assumptions of traditional hypothesis tests are violated or one<br />

wishes to perform a test without making assumptions about the sampled<br />

population.<br />

TOPICS<br />

13.1 INTRODUCTION<br />

13.2 MEASUREMENT SCALES<br />

13.3 THE SIGN TEST<br />

13.4 THE WILCOXON SIGNED-RANK TEST FOR LOCATION<br />

13.5 THE MEDIAN TEST<br />

13.6 THE MANN–WHITNEY TEST<br />

13.7 THE KOLMOGOROV–SMIRNOV GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST<br />

13.8 THE KRUSKAL–WALLIS ONE-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE BY RANKS<br />

13.9 THE FRIEDMAN TWO-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE BY RANKS<br />

13.10 THE SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENT<br />

13.11 NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS<br />

13.12 SUMMARY<br />

LEARNING OUTCOMES<br />

After studying this chapter, the student will<br />

1. understand the rank transformation and how nonparametric procedures can be<br />

used for weak measurement scales.<br />

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