adjective
- relating to or denoting statistical methods that do not assume the data follows a particular distribution
Usage: statistics; mathematics
Examples
- The researcher used a nonparametric test because the data was not normally distributed.
- Nonparametric methods are useful when you cannot make assumptions about the population distribution.
- The Mann-Whitney U test is a popular nonparametric alternative to the t-test.
- She chose nonparametric statistics for her small sample size.
- Nonparametric approaches are more flexible but may be less powerful than parametric ones.
- The study employed both parametric and nonparametric analyses for comparison.