Statistics, Nonparametric

Synonyms

Kolmogorov Smirnov Test

Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

Kruskal-Wallis H Statistic

Mann Whitney U Test

Mann-Whitney U Test

Non Parametric Statistics

Non-Parametric Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics

Rank Sum Tests

Rank Test, Wilcoxon

Rank-Sum Test

Rank-Sum Tests

Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient

Statistics, Non Parametric

Statistics, Non-Parametric

Test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov

Test, Mann-Whitney U

Test, Rank-Sum

Test, Wilcox

Test, Wilcoxon Rank

Tests, Rank-Sum

U Test, Mann-Whitney

Wilcox Test

Wilcoxon Rank Test

A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1284; Corsini, Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987, p764-5)