minus-squarealtairabove@lemmy.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•How do I calculate if a test like this is statistically significant?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoYou could use a few different null hypotheses here. One with minimal assumptions would be that the medians are equal. This can be tested using the Mann-Whitney U test. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann–Whitney_U_test linkfedilink
minus-squarealtairabove@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Ground rulelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoNp - the meme whooshed me, so I thought these were serious takes. Thanks for the explanation. linkfedilink
minus-squarealtairabove@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Ground rulelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoYou haven’t gardened in SolCal then. Rocks, clay, and sand. linkfedilink
You could use a few different null hypotheses here. One with minimal assumptions would be that the medians are equal. This can be tested using the Mann-Whitney U test. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann–Whitney_U_test