title: Drawbacks to noninteger scoring for ordered categorical data.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. Stephen@stats.gla.ac.uk
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Senn
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011336:Probability; D011897:Random Allocation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results