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Two factor (or more) non-parametric comparison of means

5 messages · John Sorkin, Johan Sandblom, Peter Dalgaard +1 more

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?kruskal.test

2005/10/11, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu>:
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I suspect that John may be looking for ?friedman.test, which I believe
will allow for a two-way non-parametric test.

kruskal.test() will perform a non-parametric test on two or more samples
(or factor levels) as a generalization of wilcox.test() for one or two
samples (or factor levels).

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:22 +0200, Johan Sandblom wrote:
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"Marc Schwartz (via MN)" <mschwartz at mn.rr.com> writes:
You could be right, but you could also be wrong... It depends quite a
bit on what is meant by a "two-factor  comparison of means". If he
literally means means (!), then a permutation test (permuting within
levels of the other factor) could be appropriate. It also makes a
difference whether there's a single replication or more per cell in
the cross-classification.

  
    
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Peter,

Good points all around.

Hopefully John will provide further clarification.

Best regards,

Marc
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:46 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: