Questions tagged [nonparametric]
Use this tag to ask about the nature of nonparametric or parametric methods, or the difference between the two. Nonparametric methods generally rely on few assumptions about the underlying distributions, whereas parametric methods make assumptions that allow data to be described by a small number of parameters.
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Non-parametric one-sample mean test for a bounded variable (based on Chebyshev's inequality?)
The problem
I have $x_1, \ldots , x_n$ i.i.d. draws from r.v. $X$ such that $0 \leq X \leq 1$, but I can't make any other assumptions about the distribution.
I want to test the null hypothesis that $E(...
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