ranksum matlab,Wilcoxon rank sum test

Test the hypothesis of an increase in the population median.

Load the sample data.

load('weather.mat');

The weather data shows the daily high temperatures taken in the same month in two consecutive years.

Perform a left-sided test to assess the increase in the median at the 1% significance level.

[p,h,stats] = ranksum(year1,year2,'alpha',0.01,...

'tail','left')

p = 0.1271

h = logical

0

stats = struct with fields:

zval: -1.1403

ranksum: 837.5000

Both the p-value of 0.1271 and h = 0 indicate that there is not enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a positive shift in the median of observed high temperatures in the same month from year 1 to year 2 at the 1% significance level. Notice that ranksum uses the approximate method to calculate the p-value due to the large sample sizes.

Use the exact method to calculate the p-value.

[p,h,stats] = ranksum(year1,year2,'alpha',0.01,...

'tail','left','method','exact')

p = 0.1273

h = logical

0

stats = struct with fields:

ranksum: 837.5000

The results of the approximate and exact methods are consistent with each other.