On neutral responses (zeros) in the sign test and ties in the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 96-101

  Randles, Ronald H ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric tests; Ordinal data; Preference hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035631849     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001750358554     Document Type: Article

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