{"id":146,"date":"2018-03-09T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/hypothesis-testing-question-9-wilcoxon-signed-rank-test\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T13:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:49:38","slug":"hypothesis-testing-question-9-wilcoxon-signed-rank-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/hypothesis-testing-question-9-wilcoxon-signed-rank-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothesis Testing Question 9 – Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to Conduct Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

Question<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Blood pressure reading of ten patients before and afer medication for reducing the blood pressure are as follows<\/p>\n

Patient: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Before treatment: 86,84,78,90,92,77,89,90,90,86
After treatment:    80,80,92,79,92,82,88,89,92,83<\/p>\n

Test the null hypothesis of no effect agains the alternate hypothesis that medication is effective. Execute it with Wilcoxon test<\/p>\n

Solution Steps<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Get the Excel sheet for this problem here<\/a>
Step 1: State the null and alternate hypethesis and accptance criteria<\/b>
H0<\/sub>: difference between the pairs of observation follows a symetric distribution around 0
H1<\/sub>: difference between the pairs does not follow a symetric distribution around 0<\/p>\n

Step 2: Calculate the differences between the pairsof measurements<\/b>
I have done this using Microsof Excel and the result is shown below<\/p>\n

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Step 3: Calculate the absolute values of the differences<\/b>
In this step, you simply remove the negative signs from the negative differences
An optional addion is to add a column that holds the signs of each of the differences. This is shown in the table below<\/p>\n

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Step 4: Rank the differences<\/b>
Rank the absolute values of the differences. This is the |X-Y| column.
Values where the differnce is zero is ignored
For values where there is tied ranks, the mid-point of the two ranks is assigned to both values. For example, for values of 1, and 1, the rank of 1.5 is assigned to both values and 3 is assigned to the next rank.<\/p>\n

Step 5: Calculate the signed ranks<\/b>
This signed rank is gotten by multiplying the ranks with the corresponding signs in the sign column.
The table would now look like the one below<\/p>\n

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Step 6: Calculate Sum of Ranks<\/b>
Calculate  the sum of ranks for the positive differences as given below<\/p>\n

W+<\/sup>  = 3+ 5+2+8.5+8.5+6  = 31<\/p>\n

Calculate teh sum of ranks for the negative differences<\/p>\n

W–<\/sup> = 1+4+7 = 12<\/p>\n

The smaller of the two is used as the test statistics.<\/p>\n

W = 12<\/p>\n

Step 7: Look up the z-Table and Compare<\/b>
Get Statistical table from here<\/a><\/p>\n

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