A New Maximum Test via the Dependent Samples t-Test and the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test

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ABSTRACT

A maximum test in lieu of forcing a choice between the two dependent samples t-test and Wilcoxon signed-ranks test is proposed. The maximum test, which requires a new table of critical values, maintains nominal α while guaranteeing the maximum power of the two constituent tests. Critical values, obtained via Monte Carlo methods, are uniformly smaller than the Bonferroni-Dunn adjustment, giving it power superiority when testing for treatment alternatives of shift in location parameter when data are sampled from non-normal distributions.

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S. Maggio and S. Sawilowsky, "A New Maximum Test via the Dependent Samples t-Test and the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test," Applied Mathematics, Vol. 5 No. 1, 2014, pp. 110-114. doi: 10.4236/am.2014.51013.

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