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The mean-square errors give a logarithmic fit to the rates of change, but because there is no reason to believe this functional relation to be the correct one we used a nonparametric test for correlation (Spearman's rank coefficient [ 73]).
However, these increases in the α L/α Dratio did not reach statistical significance as evaluated by nonparametric statistics.
That is, when test data fail to meet assumptions of normality or heterogeneity of variance, a nonparametric method (determined following the statistical flowchart for the method) should be used to calculate test results, but the PMSD may be calculated as described above (using parametric methods) to provide a measure of test variability.
For vegetation sampling, we found no effect of media type on fungal abundance (Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric analysis χ 2 2 = 0.60; P = 0.74), or on fungal richness (χ 2 2 = 3.50; P = 0.17).
Here, we consider a nonparametric approach: a finite normal mixture model is used to estimate f 0 nonparametrically.