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#1 2008-07-01 22:45:45
- sk
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Statistics!!!!!!!!!
What is a Non Parametric Test in Statistics?
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#2 2008-07-02 05:44:47
- Ricky
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Re: Statistics!!!!!!!!!
Basically statistics without distributions. Much of statistics is based upon distributions, which is an assumption about how the data is layed out. This gives a lot more powerful tools. However, if the initial assumption is wrong, then so will be the results.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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