The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test condemned
โ Scribed by J. Ludbrook
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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## Abstract For some applications of the WILCOXONโMANNโWHITNEYโstatistic its variance has to be estimated. So e.g. for the test of POTTHOFF (1963) to detect differences in medians of two symmetric distributions as well as for the computation of approximate, confidence bounds for the probability __P
The Mann}Whitney ;-test is ubiquitous in statistical practice for the comparison of measures of location for two samples where the assumption of normality is questionable. Frequently, one has replicate data for each individual in a group and would like to compare measures of central tendency between