Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Statement I:Parametric tests cannot be applied to ordinal or nominal scale data.
Statement II:Parametric tests do not suppose any particular distribution and the consequential assumptions.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
CStatement I is true but Statement II is false ✓ Correct
DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Correct answer: (C) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Explanation
Parametric tests cannot be applied to ordinal or nominal data, so Statement 1 is true, while they do assume a particular distribution, so Statement 2 is false.
Parametric methods require interval or ratio measurement of the variable.
They rest on assumptions such as normality and homogeneity of variance.
Statement 2 wrongly claims parametric tests make no distributional assumption.
Distribution-free procedures are the non-parametric tests instead.
Violated parametric assumptions push the researcher toward non-parametric alternatives.
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