Re: [R] wilcox.test test statistic

2007-10-17 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, [iso-8859-1] João Fadista wrote: > When we perform a Wilcoxon rank sum test (on two samples with different > sizes) > we get a test statistic. My question is, as the value of test statistic > increases the difference between the distributions of the two samples also > increa

Re: [R] wilcox.test test statistic

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
João Fadista wrote: > Dear all, > > When we perform a Wilcoxon rank sum test (on two samples with different > sizes) we get a test statistic. My question is, as the value of test > statistic increases the difference between the distributions of the two > samples also increase, right? > Wrong

[R] wilcox.test test statistic

2007-10-17 Thread João Fadista
Dear all, When we perform a Wilcoxon rank sum test (on two samples with different sizes) we get a test statistic. My question is, as the value of test statistic increases the difference between the distributions of the two samples also increase, right? Thanks in advance, João Fadista