Inheritance of Properties of Normal and Non-Normal Distributions After Transformation of Scores to Ranks

This study investigated how population parameters representing heterogeneity of variance, skewness, kurtosis, bimodality, and outlier-proneness, drawn from normal and eleven non-normal distributions, also characterized the ranks corresponding to independent samples of scores. When the parameters of...

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Main Author: Donald W. Zimmerman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2011-01-01
Series:Psicológica
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16917012005