Tau is a non-parametric measure of the existence of a trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statistics of Record-Breaking Temperatures « Climate Audit] Reference

There is probably some bad non-parametric joke in there somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inauguration Highlights] Reference

Just to satisfy the GT crowd, a non-parametric M-K yields the same result.    From Wordnik.com.  [more bender on Emanuel « Climate Audit] Reference

So evolutionary theory is another domain of application for non-parametric analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory] Reference

You correctly state that these tests non-parametric are not robust against red noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference

That's not on the standard progression in the non-parametric Jerk Deprecatory Terminology list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference

A non-parametric method yielded estimates of 6.8% (4. 0-9.6) and 55.0% (45. 3-64.7), respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2003-05-01] Reference

Here, quite obviously, non-parametric considerations drop out, since there is only one agent under study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory] Reference

These non-parametric tests, which will cope with the Poisson variance, can still only detect linear trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Linsay's Poisson Fit « Climate Audit] Reference

Posted Oct 5, 2006 at 10:38 AM | Permalink | Reply re #177: Nope, the trick is non-parametric variance estimator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgia Tech Report Card « Climate Audit] Reference

Personally, my breath was taken away by the thought of using non-parametric statistics to answer a parametric question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgia Tech Report Card « Climate Audit] Reference

Grimvall, A resampling technique for estimating the power of non-parametric trend tests, Environmetrics 173, 257-267, 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgia Tech Report Card « Climate Audit] Reference

This sort of case exposes one of many fundamental differences between the logic of non-parametric and parametric maximization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory] Reference

One might inquire if other assessment tools parametric and/or non-parametric were used in the analysis to compliment the M-K test.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgia Tech Report Card « Climate Audit] Reference

But where circumstances are non-parametric, one agent's strategy can be influenced in another's favour if options are visibly restricted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Theory] Reference

The most advanced use parametric, non-parametric as well as.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return] Reference

This analysis also used a non-parametric Kendall correlation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

« Why aren't non-parametric statistics more popular in economics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marginal Revolution] Reference

Correlations were performed using the Spearman non-parametric test.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Multiple comparisons were made using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Two wide spread non-parametric methods are periodograms and correl - ograms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Paired t-test, Chi-square test and non-parametric Wilcoxon test were performed.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Multiple groups were compared by the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA; in case.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Statistical analyses were performed with the non-parametric Mann and Whitney test.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The computationally efficient non-parametric, chiefly Principal Components Analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Let me now turn to a different topic: the parametric and non-parametric effects of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

This is a non-parametric method, which tests equality of population medians among groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

For Ashcroft score analysis of lung fibrosis the non-parametric Mann-Whitney test was used.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The non-parametric Man-Whitney test was used to compare DO levels because of uneven sample sizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Pathway analysis was also performed using non-parametric Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), v. 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Differences in genome count numbers were assessed using non-parametric tests in SPPS 16.0 for Windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Bacterial and human genetic distance matrixes were generated and compared using non-parametric statistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Liu N, Zhao H (2006) A non-parametric approach to population structure inference using multilocus genotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

AWclust is easy to use non-parametric population structure analysis software written for R with a GUI interface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

To compare the length and number of PNGS between mother and infant sequences, we used a non-parametric Mann-Whitney test.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Rodríguez suggests two avenues for potentially more fruitful investigation: growth diagnostics and non-parametric regression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade Diversion] Reference

I ran a non-parametric statistical test (Mann-Whitney) on the two samples and the short answer is that there's no significant difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference