Nonparametric analysis of blocked ordered categories data:
some examples revisited

Best, D. J.; Rayner, J. C. W.; Thas, O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/JAMDS/2006/31089

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Volume 2006 | Article ID 031089 | https://doi.org/10.1155/JAMDS/2006/31089

Nonparametric analysis of blocked ordered categories data: some examples revisited

D. J. Best,¹J. C. W. Rayner,¹and O. Thas²

Received05 Oct 2005

Revised12 May 2006

Accepted15 May 2006

Published01 Aug 2006

Abstract

Nonparametric analysis for general block designs can be given by using the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) statistics. We demonstrate this with four examples and note that several well-known nonparametric statistics are special cases of CMH statistics.

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