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What Are <strong>Nonparametric</strong> Tests?} <strong>Nonparametric</strong> <strong>tests</strong> require few, if any assumptionsabout the shapes of the underlying populationdistributions} For this reason, they are often used in place of parametric<strong>tests</strong> if or when one feels that the assumptions of theparametric test have been too grossly violated (e.g., if thedistributions are too severely skewed).

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