BIOS 6318 - NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

[3 Credits]

Three hours of lecture per week. The course will cover methods based on ranks for one, two and k sample inferences, including Sign Test, Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test, Kruskai-Wallis Test, Tests for Trends and Association and Multivriate Tests, Analysis of Censored Data, Bootstrap methods, Expectation-Maximization algorithm. The advantages and disadvantages of each of these methods when compared to the parametric counterpart will be discussed.

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