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Re: two-sample nonparametric test on quantiles
Posted:
Jan 31, 2013 5:30 PM
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:50:03 -0800 (PST), "Mickey M."
<cz3728@gmail.com> wrote:
>Yes,
>the point was, that the weaker null hypothesis
>H0: P(X>Y) = 0.5 was satisfies for both A and B.
>but the distributions U1 for A and B were different.
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>This casts some doubt on what is written on e.g. wikipedia:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U
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>"If one is only interested in stochastic ordering of the two populations (i.e., the concordance probability P(Y > X)), the U test can be used even if the shapes of the distributions are different."
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>But here is still some chance, that the test can be used "approximately"
>even though the exact distribution of U1 is different than under standard
>null hypothesis (equality of distributions of Xi and Yi).
Yes. Wikip seems to overstate.
By the way -- for years I have been somewhat disparaging
towards rank tests. Now it turns out that I underestimated
how bad they could be.
... <snip, previous, examples>
--
Rich Ulrich
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