Describe the Working of the Connectionist Process

question 81

Essay

Describe the working of the connectionist process.

Conduct hypothesis testing for comparing two or more populations using nonparametric tests.

Understand the assumptions underlying different nonparametric tests.

Apply the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test and interpret its results.

Apply the Kruskal-Wallis test and interpret its results.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis; it marks the threshold for statistical significance.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical analysis which is appropriate for estimating population parameters for small sample sizes or unknown variances.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the sampling distribution of the mean of a normally distributed population when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Confidence Intervals

A selection of values, extracted from a sample, presumed to hold the value of an undisclosed population attribute.