SampleMannWhitneyTest Method

public static TestResult MannWhitneyTest(
	Sample a,
	Sample b
)

Public Shared Function MannWhitneyTest ( 
	a As Sample,
	b As Sample
) As TestResult

public:
static TestResult^ MannWhitneyTest(
	Sample^ a, 
	Sample^ b
)

static member MannWhitneyTest : 
        a : Sample * 
        b : Sample -> TestResult 

Parameters

a  Sample

The fisrt sample.

b  Sample

The second sample.

Return Value

The Mann-Whitney test is a non-parametric alternative to Student's t-test (StudentTTest(Sample, Sample)). Essentially, it supposes that the medians of the two samples are equal and tests the likelihood of this null hypothesis. Unlike the t-test, it does not assume that the sample distributions are normal.

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