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This article is part of a series on Medical statistics, edited by Jonathan Ball, Viv Bewick and Liz Cheek.

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Statistics review 10: Further nonparametric methods

Viv Bewick1 email, Liz Cheek2 email and Jonathan Ball3 email

1Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

2Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

3Senior Registrar in ICU, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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Critical Care 2004, 8:196-199doi:10.1186/cc2857

Published: 16 April 2004

Abstract

This review introduces nonparametric methods for testing differences between more than two groups or treatments. Three of the more common tests are described in detail, together with multiple comparison procedures for identifying specific differences between pairs of groups.


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