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Order Tests

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Mathematical Statistics

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Order tests are tests which use not the exact values of the observations, but only their order relations — i.e., only the relations x < y and x > y between the observed x and y. Since such tests are not based upon definite distribution functions for the quantities x and y, they are also called distribution-free, or nonparametric, tests.

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  1. Mathematisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Schweiz

    Prof. Dr. B. L. van der Waerden

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van der Waerden, B.L. (1969). Order Tests. In: Mathematical Statistics. Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22137-2_13

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