Can percentiles replace raw scores in the statistical analysis of test data?

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 616-638

  Zimmerman, Ronald W ^a,c   Zumbo, Bruno D ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deciles; Normalizing transformation; Percentiles; Power; Quantiles; Rank transformation; Ranks; Raw scores; Significance test; Student's t test; Type I error; Type II error; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444443078     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164404272499     Document Type: Article

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