Chapter 14. Nonparametric Methods

  1. Michael R. Chernick1,
  2. Robert H. Friis2

Published Online: 11 APR 2003

DOI: 10.1002/0471458716.ch14

Book Title

Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap

Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap

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Chernick, M. R. and Friis, R. H. (2003) Nonparametric Methods, in Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/0471458716.ch14

Author Information

  1. 1

    Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, USA

  2. 2

    California State University, Long Beach, California, USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 11 APR 2003
  2. Published Print: 21 FEB 2003

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780471411376

Online ISBN: 9780471458715

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Keywords:

  • ranking data;
  • Wilcoxon rank-sum test;
  • Wilcoxon signed-rank test;
  • sign test;
  • Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA by ranks;
  • Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient;
  • permutation test;
  • Fisher's exact test

Summary

  • A sampling distribution for the observed data does not depend on any…

  • Ranking data are useful when dealing with inferences about two or more populations.

  • A nonparametric analog to the unpaired t test, the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test is used…

  • The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is analogous to the paired t test.

  • The sign test is very much like the signed-rank test, only simpler.

  • The Kruskal–Wallis test is a nonparametric analog to the one-way analysis of variance.

  • Spearman's rho is very commonly used and easy to describe.

  • Permutation tests retain the information in the numerical data but do not…

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