Size and power estimation for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for ordered categorical data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 3461-3470

  Tang, Yongqiang ^a  

^a 14 Cambridge Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Delta method; Exact variance method; Power and samplesize; Wilcoxon rank sumtest

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXACT VARIANCE METHOD; HUMAN; O BRIEN CASTELLOE APPROXIMATION; ORDERED CATEGORICAL DATA; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZHAO RAHARDJA QU APPROXIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 81955167342     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4407     Document Type: Article

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