Sentence examples for using a nonparametric method from inspiring English sources

Amos Golan and Jeffrey M. Perloff, "Superior Forecasts of the U.S. Unemployment Rate Using a Nonparametric Method," Review of Economics and Statististics, 86(1), February 2004.

Histopathologic scores were compared using a nonparametric method (Steel-Dwass method).

Model building was done a priori, using a nonparametric method called 'random forests' [ 18].

The reference intervals of all examined index tests have been calculated using a nonparametric method, as recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute [ 15].

The AUC and its 95% confidence intervals were estimated for each biomarker to predict different CAP etiologies (bacterial, viral, mixed, and bacterial-involved) and compared using a nonparametric method.

MIC and MBC data are most properly compared using a nonparametric method such as the Mann−Whitney test, which makes no assumption about an underlying distribution and is appropriate for discrete data.

There are two kinds of pattern identification unit: One uses a parametric method for which the probability distribution of data is known in advance and another uses a nonparametric method which requires collected data because the probability distribution of data is unknown.

We take as our model h = β ( r, d ) σ + α ( r, d ) + ∈, where β r, d) and α r, d) are unknown parameters and ∈ is an independent and identically distributed random variable with an arbitrary continuous distribution function F. We use a nonparametric method [19] for the linear regression problem as an automatic way of choosing h given an image neighborhood size and d.

Whenever the transformation procedure failed to satisfy the ANOVA assumptions, we used a nonparametric method: the Kruskal-Wallis One Way Analysis of Variance.

Note that, since we used a nonparametric method, there is no need to estimate the beta parameters in real data application.

Another natural approach is to use a nonparametric method so that we do not need to specify the functional shape.