- I have a comment on an offhand remark of Glen's, at the start of
his interesting posting -
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 15:58:11 +1100, Glen Barnett
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Alex Yu wrote:
Disadvantages of non-parametric tests:
Losing precision: Edgington (1995) asserted that when more
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
Alex Yu wrote:
Disadvantages of non-parametric tests:
Losing precision: Edgington (1995) asserted that when more precise
measurements are available, it is unwise to degrade the precision by
transforming the measurements into ranked data.
Rich Ulrich wrote:
- In my vocabulary, these days, "nonparametric" starts out with data
being ranked, or otherwise being placed into categories -- it is the
infinite parameters involved in that sort of non-reversible re-scoring
which earns the label, nonparametric. (I am still trying to
Alex Yu wrote:
Disadvantages of non-parametric tests:
Losing precision: Edgington (1995) asserted that when more precise
measurements are available, it is unwise to degrade the precision by
transforming the measurements into ranked data.
So this is an argument against rank-based
