A collection of statistical methods that generally requires very few, if any, assumptions about the population distribution is known as
A)parametric methods
B)nonparametric methods
C)distribution-fixed methods
D)normal

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Nonparametric methods do not require any assumptions about the population distribution, while parametric methods do. The other two options, distribution-fixed methods and normal, do not accurately describe a collection of statistical methods but rather describe specific distributions or types of methods.

A Collection of Statistical Methods That Generally Requires Very Few