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In this part . . .
uppose you’re driving home and one of the streets
Sis blocked. What do you do? You back up and find
another way to get home. Nonparametric statistics is
that alternative route you take if the regular parametric
statistical methods aren’t allowed. What’s more, this
alternate route actually turns out to be better when the
regular route isn’t available. In this part, you find out just
how much better nonparametric statistics is using the
sign test, the signed rank test, and many more.
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