This document discusses parametric and nonparametric statistical methods. Parametric methods make assumptions about the population distribution from which the data are drawn, while nonparametric methods make fewer assumptions and do not assume a particular distribution. Nonparametric methods can be used when the data are ordinal or nominal, the sample size is small, or the data do not meet the assumptions of parametric tests like normality. Some common nonparametric tests are the sign test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Kruskal-Wallis H test.