Publication: Development and documentation on the use of nonparametric statistical tests
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2010-04-01
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Mohd Tahir, Suryani
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A detailed methodology on the development of actual engineering examples on nonparametric statistical tests is presented in this thesis. Recently, there is no documentation on the application of the nonparametric statistical tests by the students at SEE. Three nonparametric statistical tests are discussed, namely Sign Test, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Mann-Whitney U Test. This is followed by a review of the final year project thesis at SEE to point out actual examples of nonparametric statistical tests. About two hundred theses are reviewed. However, there are no nonparametric statistical tests used to analyze the experimental data. Four actual engineering examples on nonparametric statistical tests were developed. The data from the examples were analyzed using Minitab (Release 14). All the examples were documented and evaluated. The evaluation form was designed to get a feedback from engineering students regarding the examples. Thirty students are contributed to fill out the evaluation form. From the analysis of the evaluation form, the performance of the examples that was developed is at a “Good” level.