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ST 505 Applied Nonparametric Statistics

Course Description

The course provides an introduction to statistical methods requiring relatively mild assumptions about the form of the population distribution. Hypothesis testing, point and interval estimation and multiple comparison procedures for a variety of statistical problems are covered.

Course Syllabus

  • Introduction and Dichotomous Data
  • Sign and Signed Rank Procedures
  • Rank Sum Procedures
  • Tests and Multiple Comparisons
  • Kendall Procedures and Spearman Test
  • Linear Regression
  • More Two-Sample Problems
Course Prerequisites
  • ST372 or ST511 or Equivalent
Course Corequisites
  • None
Recent Textbooks
  • Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 2 ed., by Hollander, Wolfe, Wiley

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Last Modified May 2006