MATH 5710 Nonparametric Statistical Methods

Statistical Inference: properties of estimators, properties of hypothesis tests; Tests Based on the Binomial Distribution: the binomial and quantile test, the sign test, McNemar’s test; Methods Based on Ranks: Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, squared rank test, measures of rank correlation, nonparametric linear regression, Wilcoxon signed ranks test, Friedman test; Goodness of Fit Tests: Kolmogorov goodness of fit test, Kolmogorov test for two samples; Categorical Data: chi-squared goodness of fit, chi-square test for r by c contingency tables, Mantel-Haenszel test, Cochran’s test for related observations, measures of dependence, Loglinear models.

Prerequisite(s): MATH 5300 and MATH 5310 or Departmental approval.
Credits: 3.0