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ANALYSE-IT 2.20 USER GUIDE Wilcoxon Signed-ranks test This procedure is available in both the and the Wilcoxon signed ranks test is a non-parametric test for a difference in central location (median) between two paired samples. The requirements of the test are:. Two paired samples measured on an ordinal or continuous scale.

Samples have similar shape distributions, although the distributions need not be normal. Arranging the dataset Data in existing Excel worksheets can be used and should be arranged in a. The dataset must contain two ordinal or continuous scale variables. When entering new data we recommend using to create a new 2 variables dataset ready for data entry. Using the test To start the test:. Excel 2007: Select any cell in the range containing the dataset to analyse, then click Compare Pairs on the Analyse-it tab, then click Wilcoxon.

Excel 97, 2000, 2002 & 2003: Select any cell in the range containing the dataset to analyse, then click Analyse on the Analyse-it toolbar, click Compare Pairs then click Wilcoxon. Click Variable X and Variable Y and select the variables to compare. Click Alternative hypothesis and select the alternative hypothesis to test. X ≠ Y to test if the median(X) is not equal to median(Y).

X Y to test if the median(X) is greater than median (Y). X 25 cases a normal approximation, with correction for ties, is used (see 2). Median difference point estimate If both samples are continuous the median difference and confidence interval can be calculated to quantify the difference between the samples in terms that can be practically evaluated. To calculate the median difference and confidence interval:.

If the Summary statistics dialog box is not visible click Edit on the Analyse-it tab/toolbar. Enter Confidence interval to calculate for the median difference. The level should be entered as a percentage between 50 and 100, without the% sign. NOTE The Hodges-Lehman method used to calculate the confidence interval can be extremely time-consuming for large sample sizes. If a confidence interval is not required, or the sample sizes are large, leave the confidence level blank and the calculation will be skipped. The median differences and confidence interval are shown. METHOD The median difference and confidence interval are calculated using the Hodges-Lehman method (see 2).

References to further reading. (3rd edition) David J. Sheskin, ISBN 1-58488-440-1 2003; 609. Practical Non-parametric Statistics (3rd edition) Conover W.J. ISBN 0-471-16068-7 1999; 352-362.

Dinos, I just tested the SRankPair function and I found that it works just fine on my computer. Please make sure that you give the function one argument, consisting of a range with two columns.

For example to calculate the value of the function for two samples in ranges E1:E10 and F1:F10 use the function SRankPair(E1:F10) and not SRankPair(E1:E10,F1:F10). The two samples must be contained in two contiguous columns of the same size starting in the same rows. I will introduce a two argument version of the function in a future release. If this doesn’t address your problem, please send me the data that you used and range where the data was entered and I will try to duplicate the problem. Charles Update (20 July 2013): The new release of the Real Statistics Resource Pack, R1.4, now removes the restriction that the two ranges be contiguous. You can use the function SRankPai(R1, R2) where R1 and R2 are not contiguous.

I am wondering why I am getting different p values when I do this test in excel versus doing it in SAS. The p values are pretty different when using less than 20 observations, and SAS says “If n. Ada, When using the Real Statistics Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks data analysis tool both the one-tail and two-tail tests are shown using the normal approximation. This test outputs the T-crit, p-value and whether the test is significant or not. The result is the same whether the Include exact test option is checked or not. If the Include exact test option is checked then in addition an exact test is displayed. This test shows the critical value based on the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Table and whether the T value is significant or not (no p-value is displayed).

In addition, you can conduct another version of the exact test using the PERMDIST(T, n, TRUE) formula (but not included in the data analysis tool). This version outputs a p-value, and may be equivalent to the output from SAS with n. Christo, If your data is normally distributed (or at least not too skewed), you could even use the paired t test. Otherwise the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test could be used.

Recall that in the paired test, the differences between each of the pairs is tests, and so the fact that the individual samples have different variances is not relevant. With large samples, it is not too surprising that the null hypothesis is rejected, since even a small difference in the means will be statistically significant.

In these cases (and even for small samples), you should calculate the effect size. If this statistic is small, you could conclude that there is a significant difference between the means, but that this difference is small. Hi Charles, Thank you for explaining the stats so nicely.

Your website and RealStat package have been tremendously helpful. I have one question, though.

I ran the Wilcoxon signed rank test using the same dataset, and found SPSS puts out a negative Z value (-1.682), whereas RealStat in Excel puts out a positive Z value (1.631). Not only that, but the p values were slightly different: 0.093 in SPSS, and 0.1029 in RealStat. Would you please explain what can account for these differences in Z and P? I would be very grateful to hear your opinion on this. Sue, The z value is probably negative, but I have used the absolute value of the z-value in Real Statistics since it is easier to relate to this value. In any case, the absolute values of z from SPSS should be equal to the z value from Real Statistics.

Without seeing the data, I can’t explain why the z values from Excel and SPSS should differ (except for the sign). The likely reason is how ties are handled (e.g. If SPSS automatically corrects for ties and you have not chosen the ties correction in Real Statistics).

If you send me an Excel file with your data I will try to figure out why there is a difference. The fact that the p-values are different is simply a consequence of the z values being different. Sir Charles, Thanks for this site, really helped me a lot as I’m really not a statistician! I hope you would consider my question. I have a paired sample data (n=229), and their differences are actually not symmetric (i.e. I even validated this using the D’Agostino-Pearson Test from your site as well).

Considering the asymmetry, I should consider using the sign test but I am quite hesitant and am still trying to look for some way of still using the Wilcoxon-signed-rank test. I read this dissertation of Mr. Jutharath Voraprateep about “Robustness of Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test Against the Assumption of Symmetry”. If I was able to understand it correctly, he said that doing the Wilcoxon-signed-rank test after the Inverse transformation method from an arbitrary distribution of the dataset (in our case, the paired difference dataset) to comply the symmetry condition of the test can be done and may be considered. However in my dataset, some paired difference are negative, and in that, I cannot use log/ln transformation. I still want to use Wilcoxon signed rank test instead of Sign test. Of this whole idea, I hope you could help me with my problems: 1.

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Is the inverse transformation method that sir Voraprateep said same with the simple transformation method (e.g log10(x), ln(-ln(x)), cube root(x) etc.)? If yes, I’ve been looking for a transformation method that can handle negative data and at the same time improve the symmetry of the data but up to now, I still can’t find one (I objectively test for symmetry of the transformed data using the same D’Agostino-Pearson Test for symmetry). I hope you have some suggestion on what specific transformation formula (dealing with negative values and asymmetric data) I could use/consider.

If it would be successful to transform the paired difference data and be able to follow symmetry, Can I use the result of the Wilcoxon Rank signed test for the transformed data to explain the actual paired difference data (i.e whether the changes/difference between the paired sample dataset is significant or not based from the result of the test from the transformed paired difference data). If the whole idea is not appropriate, could you please suggest me of other tests similar to Wilcoxon or even sign test? Even if it’s hard, I’m going to study those tests.

I hope I was able to raise my questions/concern clearly and these questions were likewise able to provide further idea for other people who visits and really learn from your lectures and discussions. Thank you very much! Hi Charles First of all, many thanks for creating this very useful tool. I’m trying to perform a Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks for Paired Samples test using Real Statistics. The problem I keep having is that after inputting my data ranges (1 & 2) and otherwise completing the dialog box, I get the error “invalid input range 1 selected”. I’m quite certain I’m selecting only the data range I want. I get this error whether I choose the range with the column headings (and check the column heading box in the RealStats dialog) or not (and leave the corresponding box unchecked).

Any suggestions to get around this issue? Again, thanks. Consider the following two datasets: 176;176;189;171;173;162;171 176;176;189;171;173;163;170 They are equal except for the last two values, where one value in row 1 is higher than the corresponding value in row 2, and one value is lower. There will only be two ranks: one positive (2) and one negative (-1). The T value will therefore be 1, which is less than the critical value of 2 and the test therefore shows that there is a significant difference between the datasets. They do however have the same mean value, so there should not be any difference between the means? Am I doing something wrong here?

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Johan, Yes, you are doing something wrong. The sample size is n = 2, which is too small to use the table of critical values. If you use the normal approximation (not great either since the sample id very small), you will find that T = 1.5 (Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test for Paired Samples).

Since mean for the normal approximation = 2.3/2 = 1.5, the z-score = (1.5-1.5)/s.e. Thus, for a two tailed test p-value = 1-NORMSDIST(0) = 1, and so there is no significant difference between the medians. If you use the exact test, you will also get a p-value.05 (although the values reported are not correct, and so I need to fix these) Charles. Sebastian, When comparing two independent samples using the Mann-Whitney test, you can create histograms of the two samples and see whether the plots look roughly similar (even if shifted right or left). If they are roughly similar, then the test can be used to compare the medians.

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In this case the medians determine whether one sample is shifted to right (or left) of the other. Wilcoxon’s signed ranks test is used to compare paired samples (not independent sample) and essentially you are looking a one sample which contains the paired differences of the data from the two samples.

The median of the difference (not the medians of each sample) will tell you whether the differences between the samples is shifted right or left (from the origin), but the Wilcoxon signed ranks test will tell you whether this shift away from zero is significant or just random.