Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 31089, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/JAMDS/2006/31089
Nonparametric analysis of blocked ordered categories data: Some examples revisited
D.J. Best1
, J.C.W. Rayner1
and O. Thas3
1School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
3Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Gent 9000, Belgium
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.