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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Nonparametric Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences

by M. Kraska-MIller
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
260 pages
8h 14m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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the combined groups. One group will have observations at or below the
median and the second group will have observations above the median.
The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test is considered more powerful than
the median test because the rank of each observation is considered instead
of only the relation of a score to the median value in the distribution. The
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test is discussed in Section 4.3.
4.3 Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U Test
The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test is a counterpart to the parametric inde-
pendent samples t-test for evaluating whether two samples were dra ...
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