minus-squarealtairabove@lemmy.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•How do I calculate if a test like this is statistically significant?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoYou could use a few different null hypotheses here. One with minimal assumptions would be that the medians are equal. This can be tested using the Mann-Whitney U test. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann–Whitney_U_test linkfedilink
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You could use a few different null hypotheses here. One with minimal assumptions would be that the medians are equal. This can be tested using the Mann-Whitney U test. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann–Whitney_U_test