Sample size calculation for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test adjusting for ties

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 462-468

  Zhao, Yan D ^a   Rahardja, Dewi ^b   Qu, Yongming ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusting for ties; Ordinal data; Power calculation; Sample size calculation; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38949212470     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2912     Document Type: Article

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