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Mann Whitney U Test

The Mann–Whitney U test is used when comparing two independent groups. It is a good choice for our practicals, where most of our experiments have small sample sizes. In addition, data are often not normally distributed and may contain outliers. Because of this, it is better to use the Mann–Whitney U test rather than a more powerful parametric test, which assumes that the data are normally distributed. When to use the...


Tags: Practicals, Mann Whitney, Statistics, significance

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