A Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Equality of Two Populations
- 1 May 2005
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 59 (2) , 156-161
- https://doi.org/10.1198/000313005x23526
Abstract
When comparing two variables with nonnormal distributions, application of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test (WMW) is a common choice. However, it is only valid to test the null hypothesis stating equa...Keywords
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