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NON PARAMETRIC
TEST
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TEJAL
ANAND
SNEHA
ARCHANA
SHUBHAM B
SHUBHAM G
MEANING
Nonparametric statistics refer to a statistical method in which the
data is not required to fit a normal
distribution. Nonparametric statistics uses data that is often ordinal,
meaning it does not rely on numbers, but rather on a ranking or order
of sorts.
Non parametric test are called distribution free tests as they do not
require any assumptions regarding the shape of the population
distribution from where the sample is drawn.
For example, a survey conveying the consumer preferences ranging
from like to dislike would be considered ordinal data.
For example……
consider a different researcher who wants to know whether going to bed
early or late is linked to how frequently one falls ill. Assuming
the sample is chosen randomly from the population, the sample size
distribution of illness frequency can be assumed to be normal. However,
an experiment that measures the resistance of the human body to a strain
of bacteria cannot be assumed to have a normal distribution.
This is because a randomly selected sample data may be resistance to
the strain. On the other hand, if the researcher considers factors such as
genetic makeup and ethnicity, he may find that a sample size selected
using these characteristics may not be resistant to the strain. Hence,
one cannot assume a normal distribution.
This method is useful when the data has no clear numerical
interpretation and is best to use with data that has a ranking of sorts.
For example, a personality assessment test may have a ranking of its
metrics set as strongly disagree, disagree, indifferent, agree, and
strongly agree. In this case, nonparametric methods should be used.
Certain assumptions are associated with most non- parametric
statistical tests, namely:
RUN RANDOMNESS:-
It is the lack of pattern. A Random sequences of event has no order
and those not follow an not explainable
RUN:-
A Sequence of like elements that are preceded and followed by
different elements or no elements are all.
The following example
Observer is notices the gender of people enter the restaurant. In restaurant 45
people enter.
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Now we will underline the sequences in this example and find out value of
“R”
The total number of runs is 16 as shown by the lines below the randomness
APLICATIONS
• It is used in every field but frequently it is used more in psychology,
healthcare, nursing, business.
• In psychology it is used to compare attitude or behavior.
• In medicine, it is used to know the effect of 2 medicines are equal or not.
Calculation
WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST FOR PAIRED
SAMPLES
• The Mann-Whitney U test just discussed assumed that the two samples are
independent. However, there are instances when the samples data consists of
paired observations
• The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test
used to compare two related samples, matched samples, or repeated
measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean
ranks differ (i.e. it is a paired difference test). It can be used as an alternative
to the paired Student's t-test (also known as "t-test for matched pairs" or "t-
test for dependent samples") when the population cannot be assumed to be
normally distributed. A Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a nonparametric test that
can be used to determine whether two dependent samples were selected from
populations having the same distribution.
• In the pre-post analysis
• I D = pre - post
• I Retain the sign of D ( +/-)
• I Rank = rank of |D| (absolute value of D)
• I Signed rank, SR = Sign * Rank
• I Base analyses on SR
• I Observations with zero differences are ignored
• I Example: A pre-post study
The Kruskal –Wallis Test
Procedure
• 1)Obtain random samples of size n1,….,n2 from each of the k population. Therefore
the total; sample size is n=n1+n2…….+nk
• 2)Pool all the samples and rank them, with the lowest score receiving a rank of 1.
• 3)Let r1=the total of the rank from the ith sample.
• Kruskal Wallis test uses the x2 to the null hypothesis. The test statistic is given,
• Three machines are used in the packaging of 10kg of when flour each
machine is designed so as to pack on average 10kg of flour per bag samples
of six bags were selected from each machine and the amount of where
packaged in each bag is show below