Statistical Methods That Generally Require Very Few, If Any, Assumptions

question 21

Multiple Choice

Statistical methods that generally require very few, if any, assumptions about the population distribution are known as _____ methods.

• A) parametric
• B) nonparametric
• C) free
• D) distribution-fixed

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Definitions:

False Consensus

A cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate how much others share their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Popular

Being liked, admired, or supported by a large number of people, often in a social context.

Preferences

Individual choices or inclinations towards certain options, ideas, or items over others based on personal taste or values.

Transference

A phenomenon in psychoanalysis where emotions or desires originally associated with one person, typically from early life, are unconsciously transferred onto another in the present.