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- Title
The adequacy of different robust statistical tests in comparing two independent groups.
- Authors
Peró-Cebollero, Maribel; Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan
- Abstract
In the current study, we evaluated various robust statistical methods for comparing two independent groups. Two scenarios for simulation were generated: one of equality and another of population mean differences. In each of the scenarios, 33 experimental conditions were used as a function of sample size, standard deviation and asymmetry. For each condition, 5000 replications per group were generated. The results obtained by this study show an adequate type error I rate but not a high power for the confidence intervals. In general, for the two scenarios studied (mean population differences and not mean population differences) in the different conditions analysed, the Mann-Whitney U-test demonstrated strong performance, and a little worse the t-test of Yuen-Welch.
- Subjects
ROBUST statistics; GROUPS; SIMULATION methods &; models; POPULATION; SAMPLE size (Statistics); CONFIDENCE intervals
- Publication
Psicológica, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 2, p407
- ISSN
0211-2159
- Publication type
Article