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distribution-free method
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distribution-free method [‚dis·trə′byü·shən ‚frē ‚meth·əd]
(statistics)
Any method of inference that does not depend on the characteristics of the population from which the samples are obtained.


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mean and range, then a section on parametric statistics (t-test, regression), a section on non-parametric statistics and one that we seldom encounter where multivariate statistics are covered.
Survival patients versus mortality patients were compared by non-parametric statistics with p< 0.
Finally, the data were analyzed using non-parametric statistics due to the positive skew of the data (see Table 1).
 
 
 
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