Category:Definitions/Homogeneity of Variance

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Many statistical techniques require the assumption that all population variances are equal.

Several tests have been devised for checking whether this assumption is reasonable, given some relevant data.

As follows:

• Bartlett's test works well when the data fits a normal distribution, but less when when this assumption is invalid.

• Levene's test is sometimes preferred to Bartlett's test.

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Some non-parametric tests that can be used:

• The Siegel-Tukey test

• The Conover squared rank test

• The Ansari-Bradley test.

and others.