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- Title
Statistical significance levels of nonparametric tests biased by heterogeneous variances of treatment groups.
- Authors
Zimmerman, D W
- Abstract
The statistical significance levels of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and the Kruskal-Wallis test are substantially biased by heterogeneous variances of treatment groups--even when sample sizes are equal. Under these conditions, the Type I error probabilities of the nonparametric tests, performed at the .01, .05, and .10 significance levels, increase by as much as 40%-50% in many cases and sometimes as much as 300%. The bias increases systematically as the ratio of standard deviations of treatment groups increases and remains fairly constant for various sample sizes. There is no indication that Type I error probabilities approach the significance level asymptotically as sample size increases.
- Publication
The Journal of general psychology, 2000, Vol 127, Issue 4, p354
- ISSN
0022-1309
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/00221300009598589