Nonparametric test method for a given data set
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What are the clues that will tell you to use nonparametric test method for a given data set?
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1. What are the clues that will tell you to use nonparametric test method for a given data set?
One clue is if you suspect that the sample distribution is not normal. For example, "if we draw 100 random samples of 100 adults each from the general population, and compute the mean height in each sample, then the distribution of the standardized means across samples will likely approximate the normal distribution (to be precise, Student's t distribution with 99 degrees of freedom; see below). Now imagine that we take an additional sample in a particular city ("Tallburg") where we suspect that people are taller than the average population. If the mean height in that sample falls outside the ...
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