Sorry, I meant Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Thanks Peter for correction.
Weidong On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > On 2012-07-13 13:33, Weidong Gu wrote: >> >> Hi Joerg, >> >> Seems Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test (ks.test in R) would do the work >> which tests differences anywhere in two distributions, e.g. tails, >> interquartiles and center. > > > The ks.test() function refers to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, > not the Wilcoxon test. > > The OP might find this link helpful (I haven't used it, and > beware of mailer linebreaks): > > > http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/02/siegel-tukey-a-non-parametric-test-for-equality-in-variability-r-code/ > > Peter Ehlers > >> >> Weidong Gu >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Schaber, Jörg >> <joerg.scha...@med.ovgu.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have two non-normal distributions and use interquartile ranges as a >>> dispersion measure. >>> Now I am looking for a test, which tests whether the interquartile ranges >>> from the two distributions are significantly different. >>> Any idea? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> joerg >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
