@article{article_322875, title={Results of misusage of nonparametric methods: a simulation study}, journal={Cukurova Medical Journal}, volume={42}, pages={241–248}, year={2017}, DOI={10.17826/cutf.322875}, url={https://izlik.org/JA66DK98WK}, author={Ovla, Didem Havva and Türkegün, Merve and Özdemir, Ayça Asena and Özcömert, Bennu Vedia and Taşdelen, Bahar}, keywords={Görsel Analog Skala,parametrik olmayan istatistikler,ağrı}, abstract={<p class="z">Purpose: Visual Analogue Scale has a narrow range which is used to evaluate the pain severity. In general, such type of data don’t provide the parametric test hypothesis. But at the group comparisons the number of outlier could be excessive at one of the groups. Consequently, it is analyzed by using non-parametric methods. Therefore, in this study as comparing two groups which are narrow ranged rates and also have outliers (skew) it has been aimed that evaluating the performance of Student t test, Logistic transformed Student t test, Mann Whitney-U test and Mood’s Median tests.  </p> <p class="z">Material and Methods: The study was planned as a simulation study. Accordingly, it has been formed distributions which are at interval of 0-10, based on the mostly used Visual Analogue Scale rates which were used in evaluation of pain. Simulations were repeated 1000 times for 20 combinations which consisted of 4 different distributions and 5 different sample size.  </p> <p class="z">Results: Type I error rates which obtained have varied as the sample size and the distribution type is changed and the test results haven’t been changed though normalization method used in the type of data that is not concordance with normal distribution. </p> <p class="z">Conclusion: Misusing and overusing of non-parametric tests gives biased results in scientific studies. Although the general approach was using non-parametric tests in which datas were recorded at the interval of 0-10 cm, the simulation study showed that such datas could also be evaluated by using parametric tests </p> <div> <br /> </div>}, number={2}