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parametric statistics

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parametric statistics
n
(Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) (functioning as singular) the branch of statistics concerned with data measurable on interval or ratio scales, so that arithmetic operations are applicable to them, enabling parameters such as the mean of the distribution to be defined


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The real issue here is that if his indictment of parametric statistics is justified, then we need to pay attention, because psychologists and other social scientists use these tools daily.
mean and range, then a section on parametric statistics (t-test, regression), a section on non-parametric statistics and one that we seldom encounter where multivariate statistics are covered.
The alleged problems of Likert response formats are all testable and correctable and the F-ratio and many other parametric statistics and tests are incredibly robust to violations of the interval scale assumption.
 
 
 
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