Re: non parametric "functions"
- From: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin)
- Date: 14 Jun 2005 09:54:04 -0500
In article <1118717250.721231.203820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
double d <markdemers15@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Mark has been reading about non-parametric statistical tests. Is there
>such a concept as a "non parametric function"? What is a
>non-parametric fuction? How is it defined and, outside of statistics,
>what use has it?
There is no such concept as a non-parametric function.
A non-parametric test, also known as a distribution free
test, is a test statistic which, under the null hypothesis,
has a distribution which does not depend on the underlying
distribution if the underlying distribution is continuous.
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