What hypotheses do "nonparametric" two-group tests actually test?

Stata Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-190

  Conroy, Ronán M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Effect size; Hodges Lehman median shift; Mann Whitney statistic; Qreg; Ranksum; St0253; Wilcoxon rank sum test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862998052     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1201200202     Document Type: Article

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