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• 1 Introduction and Review Some important terminology
• Hypothesis testing
• Estimation
• Measurement scales
• Nonparametric statistics
• Availability and use of computer programs in nonparametric statistical analysis
• Scope of this book
• Format and organization
• References
• 2 Procedures That Utilize Data From a Single Sample Making inferences about a location parameter
• Making inferences about a population proportion
• One-sample runs test for randomness
• Cox-Stuart test for trend
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 3 Procedures that Utilize Data From two Independent Samples Making inferences about the difference between two location parameters
• Making inferences about the equality of two dispersion parameters
• Some miscellaneous two-sample tests
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 4 Procedures that Utilize Data From two Related Samples Procedures for testing hypotheses about location parameters
• Confidence interval procedures for the median difference
• Test for two related samples when data consist of frequencies
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 5 Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Homogeneity Mathematical properties of the chi-square distribution
• Chi-Square test of independence
• Chi-square test of homogeneity
• Miscellany
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 6 Procedures that Utilize Data From Three or More Independent Samples Extension of the median test
• Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks
• Jonckheere-Terpstra test for ordered alternatives
• Multiple comparisons
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 7 Procedures That Utilize Data from Three or More Related Samples Friedman two-way analysis of variance by ranks
• Multiple-comparison procedure for use with Friedman test
• Page''s test for ordered alternatives
• Durbin test for incomplete block designs
• Cochran''s test for related observations
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 8 Goodness-of-Fit Tests Chi-square goodness-of-it test
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test
• Confidence band for the population distribution function
• Chi-square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit tests: a comparison
• Other goodness-of-fit tests
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 9 Rank Correlation and other Measures of Association Spearman rank correlation coefficient
• Kendall''s tau
• Confidence interval for tau
• Olmstead-Tukey corner test of association
• Kendall''s coefficient of concordance W
• Partial rank correlation
• Measures of association for contingency tables
• Other measures of association
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• 10 Simple Linear Regression Analysis Fitting the Regression Line
• Testing the hypothesis about alpha and beta
• Confidence interval for slope coefficient
• Test for parallelism of two regression lines
• Estimator and confidence interval for difference between slope parameters
• Computer programs
• Review exercises
• References
• Appendix: Tables
• Solutions to Odd-Numbered Exercises
• Index