A SAS macro for testing differences among three or more independent groups using Kruskal-Wallis and Nemenyi tests

Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Medical Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 130-134

  Liu, Yuewei ^a,b   Chen, Weihong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hubei Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Kruskal Wallis; Multiple comparisons tests; Nemenyi; SAS macro

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84861169853     PISSN: 16720733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11596-012-0023-9     Document Type: Article

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