Wilcoxon's Rank-Sum
Helicobacter pylori infection is not associated with fatty liver disease including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a large-scale cross-sectional study in Japan
... Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test and following categorical variables were compared using the Fisher’s exact test as appropriate for fatty liver status: age (con- tinuous data), height (continuous data), weight ...
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Feature selection in detection of adverse drug reactions from the Health Improvement Network (THIN) database
... In this study we propose a novel method to successfully detect the ADRs by introducing feature matrix and feature selection to detect the significant changes after patients take drugs. A feature matrix, which ...
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Nonparametric CUSUM Control Chart based on Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Statistics and Hodges Lehmann Estimator
... cumulative sum (CUSUM) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart consider past information together with current information which makes this control chart effective in detecting small shifts quickly ...
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Original Article Pseudo-hypoalbuminemia in peritoneal dialysis patients
... The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the differences between the study groups, including age, body mass index (BMI), Kt/V [a dimensionless index that measures the fractional urea clearance ...
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Correlation between intervertebral disc degeneration, paraspinal muscle atrophy, and lumbar facet joints degeneration in patients with lumbar disc herniation
... statistics. Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the differences in intervertebral disc, facet joints, and muscle CSA degeneration grade between L3-L4 and L5-S1 as well as the differences in ...
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Statistical Tests for Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Data
... Identify a small number of differentially expressed genes for accurate classification of gene samples is essential for the development of diagnostic tests. The aim of this paper is to examine the identification of ...
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Breast cancer in postmenopausal women is associated with an altered gut metagenome
... The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to identify significant differences in abundance of genes, genera, virulence factors, inter- action genes, and ...Spearman’s rank correl- ation was used to ...
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Machine learning identifies a compact gene set for monitoring the circadian clock in human blood
... To examine the circadian patterns that ZeitZeiger was learning, we used the parameter values sumabsv = 2 and nSPC = 2 to train a predictor on all control samples from the three datasets. The SPCs calculated by ...
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nihms-1522959.pdf
... PROBE, Wilcoxon rank sum testing was used to compare scores on the PROBE at the initial assessment and then on an assessment six months later among patients with CD and UC to examine test- retest ...
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Statistical Comparison of Eight Alternative Methods for the Analysis of Paired Sample Data with Applications
... the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test and the modified sign tests can be equally used in data analysis, then it is shown that the modified sign tests are more efficient and hence more powerful than the ...
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Efficacy of Irrigant activation technique of Q mix 2 in 1 in removing intracanal smear layer: An in vitro scanning electron microscopic study
... After dentin surface treatment, all specimen of each group were prepared for scanning electron microscope (SEM). After the removal of the smear layer, two parallel longitudinal grooves were prepared with a diamond disc ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5014739.pdf
... by Wilcoxon rank sum tests between study treatment arms, and by Kruskal- Wallis test between the baseline impairment ...by Wilcoxon signed rank ...
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Classification of upper limb center-out reaching tasks by means of EEG-based continuous decoding techniques
... To estimate the significance of our findings, the decod- ing approach was tested with random and shuffled data and compared with the results for active movement (Fig. 6). Active movement was decoded significantly above ...
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Influence of a home-based exercise program on the urine pH in elderly female subjects: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
... Methods: The current study is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which 59 postmenopausal female subjects were randomized to either the exercise group ( n = 29) or the control group ( n = 30). ...
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Inflammation associated microRNA changes in circulating exosomes of heart failure patients
... two-sided Wilcoxon rank sum test, 14 subjects were needed in each group to ensure a power of 90%, with an alpha of ...fold-changes. Wilcoxon signed ranked test was used for comparison between ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease upper airway microbiota alpha diversity is associated with exacerbation phenotype: a case-control observational study
... Wilcoxon rank-sum permutation tests with Benjamini- Hochberg correction were used to test for significant dif- ferences in ASV counts between phenotypes. 4 Oral Wash Alpha Diversity Is A[r] ...
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On Degree-d Zero-Sum Sets of Full Rank
... An interesting open question is stated in Question 1. That is, can we understand in which cases the minimal degree-d zero-sum sets are also maximal? A more general and indeed remarkable result would be to derive ...
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Within Day Energy Balance and the Relationship to Injury Rates in Pre Professional Ballet Dancers
... Since Partial Least Squares (PLS) method is widely used in the discrimination analysis, we would like to try PLS for our data analysis. We are not directly using PLS. The procedure is explained in two steps. Selecting ...
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An exploration of EEG features during recovery following stroke – implications for BCI-mediated neurorehabilitation therapy
... Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests were used to evalu- ate statistical differences between these classification results for the Healthy, All Stroke, Early Stroke and Late Stroke groups when grouped[r] ...
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Benchmarking software tools for detecting and quantifying selection in evolve and resequencing studies
... value, s selection coefficient, LRT likelihood ratio test, BF Bayes factor, LL log-likelihood, δ ˆ shared allele frequency change, dx r change in allele frequency in a single replicate ...
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