Nonparametric statistics for non-statisticians: a step-by-step approach

Preface. 1 Nonparametric Statistics: An Introduction. 1.1 Objectives. 1.2 Introduction. 1.3 The Nonparametric Statistical Procedures Presented in this Book. 1.4 Ranking Data. 1.5 Ranking Data with Tied Values. 1.6 Counts of Observations. 1.7 Summary. 1.8 Practice Questions. 1.9 Solutions to Practice Questions. 2 Testing Data for Normality. 2.1 Objectives. 2.2 Introduction. 2.3 Describing Data and the Normal Distribution. 2.4 Computing and Testing Kurtosis and Skewness for Sample Normality. 2.5 The Kolmogorov-Smirnov One-Sample Test. 2.6 Summary. 2.7 Practice Questions. 2.8 Solutions to Practice Questions. 3 Comparing Two Related Samples: The Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test. 3.1 Objectives. 3.2 Introduction. 3.3…