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Nonparametric Statistical Tests

2010· other· en· W1571346420 on OpenAlexaff
David L. Streiner

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology · 2010
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNeural Networks and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNonparametric statisticsMathematicsStatisticsParametric statisticsStatistical hypothesis testingNormal distributionStandard deviationNonparametric regressionPopulationEconometrics

Abstract

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Abstract Statistical tests in the ANOVA and correlation families (e.g., t ‐test, Pearson's correlation, multiple regression, path analysis) require the distribution underlying the dependent variables to be normally distributed. Because the normal curve is defined by two parameters (the mean and standard deviation), such tests are referred to parametric . Another class of tests is called nonparametric , or more properly, distribution‐free , because they do not make any assumptions about the parameters of the population from which the sample(s) are drawn. However, while they are distribution‐free, they are not assumption‐free. Many of the nonparametric tests have the same assumptions as parametric ones, such as that the observations are independent; that they are at a certain level of measurement (e.g., nominal or ordinal); and with some, that the distributions are similar across groups (i.e., if they are skewed, then they are skewed in the same direction for all groups).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.031
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.236
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score0.300

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0310.236
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0070.007
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0900.027

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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