Pedro A Reche wrote: > Dear R users, > I am new to R and I would like to ask your help with the following > topic. I have three sets of numeral data, 2 sets are paired and a > third is independent of the other two. For each of these sets I have > obtained their basic statistics (mean, median, stdv, range ...). > Now I want to compare if these sets differ. I could compare the mean > doing a basic T test . However, I was looking for a test to compare > the medians using R. If that is possible I would love to hear the > specifics.
Hi Pedro, You can use the Mann-Whitney test ("wilcox" with two samples), but you would have to check that the second and third moments of the variable distributions were the same, I think. Jim ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.