Global comparisons of medians and other quantiles in a one-way design when there are tied values

DOI10.1080/03610918.2015.1071388zbMATH Open1373.62201arXiv1506.07461OpenAlexW1612918969MaRDI QIDQ5358355FDOQ5358355

Rand R. Wilcox

Publication date: 20 September 2017

Published in: Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For $Jge2$ independent groups, the paper deals with testing the global hypothesis that all $J$ groups have a common population median or identical quantiles, with an emphasis on the quartiles. Classic rank-based methods are sometimes suggested for comparing medians, but it is well known that under general conditions they do not adequately address this goal. Extant methods based on the usual sample median are unsatisfactory when there are tied values except for the special case $J=2$. A variation of the percentile bootstrap used in conjunction with the Harrell--Davis quantile estimator performs well in simulations. The method is illustrated with data from the Well Elderly 2 study.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07461

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zbMATH Keywords

Well Elderly 2 studybootstrap methodsprojection distancesHarrell-Davis estimatortied values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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• Quantile estimation and comparing two independent groups with an approach based on percentile bootstrap

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