Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure

This article investigates the performance of two-sample pseudo-median based procedure in testing differences between groups. The procedure is a modification of the one-sample Wilcoxon procedure using the pseudo-median of differences between group values as the central measure of location. The test w...

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Main Authors: Nor Aishah Ahad, Abdul Rahman Othman, Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/
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author Nor Aishah Ahad,
Abdul Rahman Othman,
Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya,
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Abdul Rahman Othman,
Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya,
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description This article investigates the performance of two-sample pseudo-median based procedure in testing differences between groups. The procedure is a modification of the one-sample Wilcoxon procedure using the pseudo-median of differences between group values as the central measure of location. The test was conducted on two groups with moderate sample sizes of symmetric and asymmetric distributions. The performance of the procedure was measured in terms of Type I error and power rates computed via Monte Carlo methods. The performance of the procedure was compared against the t-test and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test. The findings from this study revealed that the pseudo-median procedure performed very well in controlling Type I error rates close to the nominal value. The pseudo-median procedure outperformed the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test and is comparable to the t-test in controlling Type I error and maintaining adequate power
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:54782016-12-14T06:38:34Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/ Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure Nor Aishah Ahad, Abdul Rahman Othman, Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya, This article investigates the performance of two-sample pseudo-median based procedure in testing differences between groups. The procedure is a modification of the one-sample Wilcoxon procedure using the pseudo-median of differences between group values as the central measure of location. The test was conducted on two groups with moderate sample sizes of symmetric and asymmetric distributions. The performance of the procedure was measured in terms of Type I error and power rates computed via Monte Carlo methods. The performance of the procedure was compared against the t-test and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test. The findings from this study revealed that the pseudo-median procedure performed very well in controlling Type I error rates close to the nominal value. The pseudo-median procedure outperformed the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test and is comparable to the t-test in controlling Type I error and maintaining adequate power Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/1/14%2520Nor%2520Aishah.pdf Nor Aishah Ahad, and Abdul Rahman Othman, and Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya, (2012) Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure. Sains Malaysiana, 41 (9). pp. 1149-1154. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/
spellingShingle Nor Aishah Ahad,
Abdul Rahman Othman,
Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya,
Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title_full Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title_fullStr Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title_full_unstemmed Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title_short Performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
title_sort performance of two-samples pseudo-median procedure
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5478/1/14%2520Nor%2520Aishah.pdf