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Also known as classical or standard tests, these are statistical tests which make certain assumptions about the parameters of the full population from which the sample is taken; it is assumed, for example, that the data show a normal distribution, and that, where populations are compared, they show the same variance. If these assumptions do not apply, non-parametric tests must be used. Parametric tests normally involve data expressed in absolute numbers or values rather than ranks; an example is the Student's t-test.
Wikipedia: Parametric statistics
Parametric statistics are statistics where the population is assumed to fit any parametrized distributions (most typically the normal distribution).
Parametric inferential statistical methods are mathematical procedures for statistical hypothesis testing which assume that the distributions of the variables being assessed belong to known parametrized families of probability distributions. In that case we speak of parametric model.
For example, analysis of variance (ANOVA) assumes that the underlying distributions are normally distributed and that the variances of the distributions being compared are similar. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient also assumes normality.
While parametric techniques are robust – that is, they often retain considerable power to detect differences or similarities even when these assumptions are violated – some distributions violate the assumptions so markedly that a non-parametric alternative is more likely to detect a difference or similarity.
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