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Wilcoxon (WMWU) test sensitivity

Statistics courses often give the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test ("Wilcoxon" from now on) as an alternative to the two-sample t-test. However, the test is not quite the test of medians that would be so ...
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Comparison of medians in samples with unequal variance, size and shape

What am I trying to do and how does my data look? I am trying to perform some comparisons of medians of groups of data that, most often than not, are not-normally distributed. In some cases I am ...
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Paired t-test of medians

I need to run an inferential test on some large data where the individual data points have a heavily skewed distribution. I'm considering doing a paired t-test across a number of days comparing the ...
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