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Winter Commencement
Winter Commencement
UNC-Chapel Hill will celebrate its December graduates at Winter Commencement at 2 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Dean E. Smith Center. Dr. Shelton “Shelley” Earp, a longtime member of the UNC School of Medicine faculty and former director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will deliver the Winter Commencement address. Please note a clear bag... Read more »
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NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series: Nonparametric statistics: understanding rank-based methods and ordinal data
NC TraCS Biostatistics Seminar Series: Nonparametric statistics: understanding rank-based methods and ordinal data
Investigators are often worried about normality and whether the assumptions of classical methods are met. Nonparametric tests (e.g., the Mann-Whitney U-test instead of the t-test) offer an attractive alternative. In this seminar Jeff Laux, PhD, will discuss the nature of ordinal data and rank-based analyses. Contact Jeff Laux with questions.