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Examples of parametric in the following topics:

• The Role of the Model

  • Fully-parametric.
  • Non-parametric.
  • Semi-parametric.
  • One component is treated parametrically and the other non-parametrically.
  • More complex semi- and fully parametric assumptions are also cause for concern.

• Distribution-Free Tests

  • It includes non-parametric descriptive statistics, statistical models, inference, and statistical tests).
  • These play a central role in many non-parametric approaches.
  • In these techniques, individual variables are typically assumed to belong to parametric distributions.
  • In terms of levels of measurement, non-parametric methods result in "ordinal" data.
  • Non-parametric statistics is widely used for studying populations that take on a ranked order.

• Kruskal-Wallis H-Test

  • The Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks is a non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution.
  • Allen Wallis) is a non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution.
  • The parametric equivalent of the Kruskal-Wallis test is the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
  • Since it is a non-parametric method, the Kruskal–Wallis test does not assume a normal distribution, unlike the analogous one-way analysis of variance.

• Sign Test

  • Non-parametric statistical tests tend to be more general, and easier to explain and apply, due to the lack of assumptions about the distribution of the population or population parameters.
  • As outlined above, the sign test is a non-parametric test which makes very few assumptions about the nature of the distributions under examination.

• Wilcoxon t-Test

  • The Wilcoxon signed-rank t-test is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test used when comparing two related samples, matched samples, or repeated measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean ranks differ (i.e., it is a paired difference test).
  • The test was popularized by Siegel in his influential text book on non-parametric statistics.

• Comparing Three or More Populations: Randomized Block Design

  • In the analysis of two-way randomized block designs, where the response variable can take only two possible outcomes (coded as $0$ and $1$), Cochran's $Q$ test is a non-parametric statistical test to verify if $k$ treatments have identical effects.
  • The Friedman test is a non-parametric statistical test developed by the U.S. economist Milton Friedman.
  • Similar to the parametric repeated measures ANOVA, it is used to detect differences in treatments across multiple test attempts.

• Mann-Whitney U-Test

  • The Mann–Whitney $U$-test is a non-parametric test of the null hypothesis that two populations are the same against an alternative hypothesis.
  • The Mann–Whitney $U$-test is a non-parametric test of the null hypothesis that two populations are the same against an alternative hypothesis, especially that a particular population tends to have larger values than the other.

• Comparing Two Populations: Independent Samples

  • A tau test is a non-parametric hypothesis test for statistical dependence based on the tau coefficient.
  • Since it is a non-parametric method, the Kruskal–Wallis test does not assume a normal distribution, unlike the analogous one-way analysis of variance.
  • The Walk–Wolfowitz runs test is a non-parametric statistical test that checks a randomness hypothesis for a two-valued data sequence.

• t-Test for One Sample

  • The $t$-test is the most powerful parametric test for calculating the significance of a small sample mean.
  • The $t$-test is the most powerful parametric test for calculating the significance of a small sample mean.

• Variance Estimates

  • Although, if the normality assumption does not hold, it suffers from a loss in comparative statistical power as compared with non-parametric counterparts.