On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 4:31 PM, <
josef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "
> All the cases considered so far exemplify inappropriate applications
> of the two-sample Wilcoxon test; what the researchers intend to test
> (testing equality of medians, means, or distributions) is incongruous
> with what the Wilcoxon test is actually testing (H0 : P(X ≤ Y) = 1 / 2
> ). However, as will be argued in a more general setting in Section 3,
> even when testing H0 : P(X ≤ Y) = 1 / 2 , the standard Wilcoxon test
> is invalid unless it is appropriately studentized.
> "
> Chung, EunYi, and Joseph P. Romano. 2016. “Asymptotically Valid and
> Exact Permutation Tests Based on Two-Sample -Statistics.” Journal of
> Statistical Planning and Inference 168 (January): 97–105.
> doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2015.07.004.
>
> The section on "Misapplication of the Wilcoxon test" is a good read,
> the same essentiallyapplies to permutation tests.
>
>
> I bounced into applicability of permutation based tests, and the
> distinction about what tests actually test under different auxiliary
> assumptions, when I was looking initially small sample inference in
> binomial models and contingency tables.