Re: What statistical test to use?



Ronald van den Berg wrote:
> (sorry for the cross-posting; i discovered that this group is probably
> a bit more appropriate for my question than the one in which i
> originally posted it)
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am analyzing some data of a recent experiment that i did. Apart from
> ANOVA and t-tests i am not really familiar with applied statistics and
> i'm having some difficulties now in finding out what test to use for
> statistics on my data. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> To give you an impression of the kind of data that it concerns, two
> example plots can be found at:
> http://www.ronaldvdberg.nl/temp/stat.htm
>
> Roughly stated, the raw data consists of counts of (fixation) errors.
> Errors were discrete values, ranging from 0 to 9. The plots show the
> proportion of fixations associated to each error (I normalized all raw
> counts by dividing every count by the total count). So, the sum is 1
> and the mean is 0.1 in both plots/datasets. The distributions in these
> two data sets are clearly different and my question is how i can
> properly test/show this ... ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ronald

You could try a non-parametric test like the Wilcoxon rank sum test?

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