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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences

by M. Kraska-MIller
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
260 pages
8h 14m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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38 Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Nonparametric procedures are appropriate alternatives for small data sets
or when interval or ratio data do not meet the assumptions necessary for
parametric statistics. At the same time, small samples make nonparametric
statistics less powerful than parametric statistics, particularly in situations
where data meet the normality assumption. Nonparametric procedures are
often thought to be simpler than their parametric counterparts.
Generally, nonparametric statistics are easier to calculate than parametric
statistics. Even so, results from nonparametric statistics can be nearly as ...
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