[Rd] Documentation bug in kruskal.test (PR#10404)

bornkamp at statistik.uni-dortmund.de bornkamp at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Wed Nov 7 13:30:23 CET 2007


Full_Name: Björn Bornkamp
Version: 2.6.0
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (129.217.207.144)


The literature reference in the documentation for the function kruskal.test is:

Myles Hollander & Douglas A. Wolfe (1973), Nonparametric statistical inference.
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pages 115–120. 

But I believe it should be

Myles Hollander & Douglas A. Wolfe (1973), Nonparametric statistical methods.
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pages 115–120. 

There is a different book from Jean Gibbons called "Nonparametric statistical
inference", but I believe it does not describe the corrected Kruskal Wallis test
statistic, when there are ties in the data...



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