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What does it mean to say that a test is nonparametric? What are the relative advantages of such tests?
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Nonparametric tests are statistical tests that do not make any assumptions about the distribution of the population being studied. In other words, these tests do not assume that the data follows a specific distribution, such as a normal distribution. This is in Show more…
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