Message-ID: <43A94FEB.4060106@math.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 2005-12-21T12:51:55Z
From: Peter Ehlers
Subject: Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test in R
In-Reply-To: <x2mziu29fz.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Peter,
You're right, of course, as usual. Sorry about that.
Peter E.
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> P Ehlers <ehlers at math.ucalgary.ca> writes:
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>>>so a good guess at its definition is that it is obtained from W or one
>>>of the others by subtracting the mean and dividing with the SD.
>>>
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>>With the SD adjusted for ties, of course. (See, e.g., Conover's book.)
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> ...which is actually the exact SD, conditional on the set of tied
> ranks, not just a correction term. See my discussion with Torsten a
> month or so ago.
>