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Peer reviewedRasmussen, Jeffrey Lee – Evaluation Review, 1985
A recent study (Blair and Higgins, 1980) indicated a power advantage for the Wilcoxon W Test over student's t-test when calculated from a common mixed-normal sample. Results of the present study indicate that the t-test corrected for outliers shows a superior power curve to the Wilcoxon W.
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Error of Measurement, Hypothesis Testing, Power (Statistics)
