Re: Minimum sample size for Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.



On 14 Dec 2005 05:31:03 -0800, Saxatilis@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to perform a one tailed Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Rank
> test with a sample size of 5. It is not clear to me if this is a
> sufficient sample size to be performing this test. Please help!!!

Sufficient for what? Test it out - I think it will reject
for the most extreme case, of non-overlapping results,
each x_i greater than its corresponding y_i.

Do the tables go down to 5?

It won't be sufficient for any hypothesis that isn't
that extreme.

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