PROPHET StatGuide: One-sample sign test

The one-sample sign test is used to test the null hypothesis that the probability of a random value from the population being above the specified value is equal to the probability of a random value being below the specified value.

• one-sample problem
• independent samples
• violation of test assumptions
• distribution-free tests
• rank tests

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Last modified: March 14, 1997