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Wilcox, Rand R.; Charlin, Ventura L. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1986
This paper investigates three methods for comparing medians rather than means in studying two independent treatment groups. The method that gave the best results is based on a normal approximation of the distribution of the sample median where the variance is estimated using results reported by Maritz and Jarrett. (Author/JAZ)
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