Re: Disadvantage of Non-parametric vs. Parametric Test

[Robert Dawson]

Jerry Dallal wrote:

> Here's one.
> Lack of readily available software to produce confidence intervals.
> In some simple situations, confidence intervals for some population
> quantities are available through the order statistics, but I don't
> know of any readily available software that produces them.


MINITAB has commands WINT (signed-rank interval), SINT (sign interval), and
automatically produces an interval for difference of medians with the MANN
(-Whitney-Wilcoxon) command, as well as the hypothesis test.

    -Robert Dawson