This issue of Statistics in Medicine contains as the lead article a provocative paper by Alvan Feinstein, &Indexes of contrast and quantitative signi"cance for comparisons of two groups', followed by commentaries by
The Comparison of Two Sets of Grouped Cyclic (Circular) Data
β Scribed by Dr. Graham Upton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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β¦ Synopsis
Summry
A Monte Carlo procedure is suggested for the problem of judging whether two sets of grouped circular data, possibly differently oriented, have arisen from otherwise equivalent dietributions. The procedure is applied to data relating to t h e months of onset of two illnesses in a group of patients.
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