[R] significance test interquartile ranges

Weidong Gu anopheles123 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 22:33:26 CEST 2012


Hi Joerg,

Seems Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test (ks.test in R) would do the work
which tests differences anywhere in two distributions, e.g. tails,
interquartiles and center.

Weidong Gu

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Schaber, Jörg
<joerg.schaber at med.ovgu.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two non-normal distributions and use interquartile ranges as a dispersion measure.
> Now I am looking for a test, which tests whether the interquartile ranges from the two distributions are significantly different.
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> joerg
>
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