A Brief Introduction to Biostatistics

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Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test



  1. Add up ranks of positive differences and ranks
    of negative differences. Call the sum of the
    smaller group T



  • Sum of + ranks: 17 (n+ =4)

  • Sum of ā€“ ranks: 38 (nā€“ = 6)

  • T (sum of ranks of smaller group) = 17


Patients 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Drug score 19 11 14 17 23 11 15 19 11 8
Placebo score 22 18 17 19 22 12 14 11 19 7
difference - 3 - 7 - 3 - 2 1 - 1 1 8 - 8 1
Rank - 6.5 8 6.5 5 2.5 9.5
Rank + 2.5 2.5 9.5 2.5
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