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Course No.
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Course Title
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Theory
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Practice
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Credit
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Prerequisite(s)
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Stat 453
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Nonparametric Methods
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3
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3
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Stat 302
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Objectives
To introduce a collection of non-parametric tests which applicable on data from general populations.
Course Description:
- Order statistics and their probability distributions.
- Distribution of the median, limiting distribution.
- Point and interval estimation for median using order statistics.
- Sign, signed rank (Wilcoxon) tests for one sample and paired data.
- Kolmogrov-Smirnov test for one and two samples.
- Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test for two samples.
- Spearman's rank correlation, Kendall's tau and tests of association based on them.
- Kreskas - Walls test and Friedman test.
Main text books :
Conover, W. "Practical Nonparametric Statistics", 3rd,John Wiley & Sons, (1992).
Subsidary books :
Randles R.H. and D.A. Wolfe, "Introduction to the theory of Non-parametric, 1992, John Wiley and Sons.
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