STA 673 - DISTRIBUTION-FREE STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA

College of Arts and Sciences

Credits: 2

Inference for population quantiles, sign tests, Wilcoxon tests, Kruskal- Wallis and Friedman tests, Kendall and Spearman rank correlation. Goodness-of-fit tests for completely and partially specified distributions, rxc contingency tables, McNemar and Cochran’s Q tests for matched proportions; three dimensional tables and tests of partial and multiple associations. Lecture, three hours per week; laboratory, two hours per week for seven and a half weeks. Offered the first or second half of each semester.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: STA 570 or STA 580.