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Bakir, Saad T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
We propose a nonparametric (or distribution-free) procedure for testing the equality of several population variances (or scale parameters). The proposed test is a modification of Bakir's (1989, Commun. Statist., Simul-Comp., 18, 757-775) analysis of means by ranks (ANOMR) procedure for testing the equality of several population means. A proof is…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Nonparametric Statistics, Business Administration Education
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Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
Power and Type I error rates were estimated for contingency tables with small sample sizes for the following four types of tests: (1) Pearson's chi-square; (2) chi-square with Yates's continuity correction; (3) the likelihood ratio test; and (4) Fisher's Exact Test. Various marginal distributions, sample sizes, and effect sizes were examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: Chi Square, Comparative Analysis, Effect Size, Estimation (Mathematics)