Looks like you are back to a chi-square.
Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Interim Chair, Dept. Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/05 11:37 AM >>> Thanks for all the responses. The problem I have with Kruskal-Wallis and the Mann-Whitney is that I have a lot of ties. The sample is about 500 in size distributed among 5 ordered categories. Stephen A. Truhon, Ph.D. Department of Social Sciences Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem, NC 27110 >The ordinal scale of the dependent measure might make one reluctant to use a >t-test. But a non-parametric version of the t-test (e.g., Mann-Whitney) might >capture the difference in problem severity between the two groups. > >Claudia Stanny > > >________________________________________________________ > >Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. >Associate Professor >General Track Coordinator >Department of Psychology >University of West Florida >Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm >Phone: (850) 474 - 3163 >FAX: (850) 857 - 6060 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
