The Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired comparisons of clustered data

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-192

  Rosner, Bernard ^a,b   Glynn, Robert J ^b,c   Lee, Mei Ling T ^a,b  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Nonparametric tests; Ophthalmologic data; Paired data

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

CLUSTERED DATUM; DATA SET; NONPARAMETRIC TESTS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC DATA; PAIRED COMPARISON; PAIRED DATA; RANDOMISATION; UNIT OF ANALYSIS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK TEST;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE; HUMAN; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 33645066881     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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