[Solved] A bond is A) a share of ownership in a company. B) a document that formally promises to repay a loan. C) a promise to pay a dividend. D) a non-contingent payment. Distribution-free: Refers to statistical methods that do not rely on assumptions about the specific distribution of the data. Categories: Distinct groups or classes into which data or items can be divided based on shared characteristics or qualities. Chi-square: A statistical test used to compare observed frequencies with expected frequencies for categorical variables to assess the likelihood of an association. Parametric Statistics: A branch of statistics that assumes data comes from a type of distribution and makes inferences about the parameters of the distribution.