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When is Tukey post hoc test result identical to Games Howell post hoc test for Welch ANOVA?

In what situations is the Tukey post hoc test identical to the Games Howell post hoc test? I have an ANOVA analysis where HOV is violated and I have a statistically significant Welch ANOVA result. I ...
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Why does the Dunn's test in online calculator rejects the null hypothesis while my manual computations cannot reject it?

In my own manual calculations of the Dunn's Test in google sheet, using the formula from a YouTube video, I managed to calculate the same Test Statistic as the online calculator. However, using the ...
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SIgnificant ANOVA but not significant post hoc ... what can I do?

I am analyzing some IHC data on the density of cells in two brain regions(factor 1) in two closely related species(factor 2). My data is composed of an n of 6 for each species and is not normally ...
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Dunn test in R: comparison between levels of a single factor in a 2-factor experiment

For a 2-factor experiment, the TukeyHSD function in R (after a significant ANOVA) can calculate P values for the differences between levels of a single factor (basically, comparisons between the ...
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Bonferroni correction gives weird results in R

I have this dataset: Treatment data T1 0 T1 0 T1 0 T10 0 T10 0 T10 0 T11 0.2 T11 0.2 T11 0.2 T12 0 T12 0 T12 0 T2 0.7 T2 0.6 T2 0.6 T3 0.8 T3 0.7 T3 0.8 T4 0.3 T4 0.3 T4 0.4 T5 ...
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Kruskal-Wallis returns only one significant group (out of 4 groups), when significant group is removed and test redone, another group is significant?

I am comparing 4 groups of samples using SPSS. The groups are 4 bathymetry groups (>0m, >-1m, >-2m, >-3m). Within each group are a number of samples n. Each sample has a recorded seagrass ...
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Need for bonferroni correction

I need help understanding if I need to / how to apply a bonferroni correction! I have one continuous variable and three unrelated groups that have completed scores on this variable (Groups: A,B,C). I ...
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How to do pairwise comparisons for Kruskal Wallis test?

If the null hypothesis in the Kruskal Wallis test is rejected, How can we perform pairwise comparisons? Can we apply Dunnett's Test for that?
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Are t-tests good choices here?

I would like to test if two groups of participants (dark-eyed and light-eyed individuals) respond to a drug differently over time. The hypothesis is that the drug reaches its peak effects sooner but ...
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Which pair of two distributions are more similar?

Suppose I have two pairs of distributions: distributions A and B in Pair 1, distribution C and D in Pair 2. There are non-parametric tests to determine if there is evidence to say that the ...
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On assumptions and calculation of O'Brien's "Global Statistical Test" for Multiple Endpoints Analysis

As I understand, O'Brien's Global Statistical Test (GST) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6534410/) for Multiple Endpoints Analysis is a method for mapping a multivariate problem on a univariate scale....
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Multiplicity correction after performing non-parametric tests

This is a theoretical question. I am wondering if multiplicity correction is applicable in the case of non-parametric tests. I have performed some Mann-Whitney U rank test on two independent samples ...
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How do I interpret the p-value in a Dunn-test?

I conducted a Kruskal Wallis test for my sample sizes, and this is what I got: Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 12.138, df = 4, p-value = 0.01635 The p-value is below 0.05, so I know there is a ...
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Which pairwise comparison tests are best to use after the Kruskal-Wallis test (Dunn, Conover-Iman or Steel-Dwass-Critchlow-Fligner test)?

I have 3 sampling sites where I took 3 water samples in each site. I chose to do the Kruskal-Wallis test to find out if there is a significant difference in total nitrogen between the sites. I did not ...
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Multiple comparisons version of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

Suppose $\mathbf{y}_{i} $ and $ \mathbf{x}_{i}\,$ are length-$m$ vectors and $D_{i}$ is some arbitrary distribution $(i=1,...,N)$. I would like to conduct the following hypothesis test: $ H_{0}: \...
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