Re: Disadvantage of Non-parametric vs. Parametric Test

[Jerry Dallal]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Dawson) writes:
> Jerry Dallal wrote:
> 
>> Here's one.
>> Lack of readily available software to produce confidence intervals.
>> In some simple situations, confidence intervals for some population
>> quantities are available through the order statistics, but I don't
>> know of any readily available software that produces them.
> 
> MINITAB has commands WINT (signed-rank interval), SINT (sign interval), and
> automatically produces an interval for difference of medians with the MANN
> (-Whitney-Wilcoxon) command, as well as the hypothesis test.

Great!  Maybe it'll force other vendors to do likewise.
Thanks for the heads-up.