Manuals/calci/WILCOXONSIGNEDRANKTEST

WILCOXONSIGNEDRANKTEST(xRange,yRange,Confidencelevel,Logicalvalue)

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$Confidencelevel$ is the value between 0 and 1.
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Description

This function gives the summary values of Wilcoxon signed rank test.
This test is the one of the Non Parametric test.
Nonparametric test is also called Distribution Free Test.
So Wilcoxon Rank test is not depending on the parameters.
This test is designed to test a hypothesis about the median of a population distribution.
It often involves the use of matched pairs, for example, before and after data, in which case it tests for a median difference of zero.
Also this test does not require the assumption that the population is normally distributed.
This test is the alternative of the Student's T-test.
Normally this test is the version of the dependent samples t-test that can be performed on the ranked data.
i.e., When the requirements for the t-test for two paired samples are not satisfied, the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Paired Samples non-parametric test can often be used.
It is a more powerful alternative to the sign test, but does assume that the population probability distribution is symmetric.
For this test let us consider the n subjects from the population with two observations Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {x_1,x_2,....x_n}} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {y_1,y_2,....y_n}} .
The requirements for the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Tests for Paired Samples where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle z_i = y_i–x_i} for all i = 1, … ,n, are as follows:

     1.the Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle z_i}
 are independent. 
     2.Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x_i}
 and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle y_i}
 are interval data.

This test containing the following steps:
1.Define Null and Alternative hypothesis:
- Null hypothesis = There is no difference between the two observations.
- Alternative hypothesis Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H_1} = There is a difference between the two observations.
2.State alpha(Confidence level): alpha value is from 0 to 1.
3.State Decision Rule: Fix the hypothesis value according to the z table.
4.Calculate Test Statistic:Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle z=\frac{\frac{T-n(n+1)}{4}}{\sqrt{\frac{(n(n+1)(2n+1)}{24}}}}

where T is the smallest rank value and n is the number of observations.

5.State Result: In this step we have to take a decision of null hypothesis either accept or reject depending on the z value.
6.State Conclusion: How far the value of the test before and after the grouping.
The Wilcoxon signed Rank test result is contains the following values in the table:Difference of the ach observation, Absolute value of the difference,Rank value,Signed Rank and the test value.

Examples

Spreadsheet
	A	B
1	15	18
2	20	26
3	29	32
4	30	28
5	19	16

=WILCOXONSIGNEDRANKTEST(A1:A5,B1:B5,0.05,TRUE)