Definition:Mann-Whitney Test

Definition

The Mann-Whitney test is an alternative formulation of the Wilcoxon rank sum test.

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Source of Name

This entry was named for Henry Berthold Mann‎ and Donald Ransom Whitney‎.

Historical Note

The Mann-Whitney test was devised by Henry Berthold Mann‎ and Donald Ransom Whitney‎ in $1947$.

Sources

• 1947: H.B. Mann and D.R. Whitney: On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 18, no. 1: pp. 50 – 60)

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mann-Whitney test
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