Drawbacks to noninteger scoring for ordered categorical data.
A proposal to improve trend tests by using noninteger scores is examined. It is concluded that despite improved power such tests are usually inferior to the simpler integer scored approach.
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Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Stephen@stats.gla.ac.uk
D001699:Biometry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011336:Probability; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results