Detecting Patterns by One-Sample Runs Test: Paradox, Explanation, and a New Omnibus Procedure.

McKenzie, Dean P.; Onghena, Patrick; Hogenraad, Robert; Martindale, Colin; MacKinnon, Andrew J.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Detecting Patterns by One-Sample Runs Test: Paradox, Explanation, and a New Omnibus Procedure.

McKenzie, Dean P.; Onghena, Patrick; Hogenraad, Robert; Martindale, Colin; MacKinnon, Andrew J.

Journal of Experimental Education, v67 n2 p167-79 Win 1999

Explains a situation in which the standard nonparametric one-sample runs test gives anomalous results and describes a procedure that allows the maximum run length to be determined empirically through a Monte Carlo permutation test. Illustrates the new procedure with examples from suicide research and psycholinguistics. (SLD)

Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Nonparametric Statistics, Psycholinguistics, Statistical Analysis, Suicide

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Language: English

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