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

question 33

Multiple Choice

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

• A)parametric
• B)nonparametric
• C)free methods
• D)None of these alternatives is correct.

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