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The Mann-Whitney test for the two-sample location problem is considered. We adopt this nonparametric test to interval-valued data perceived from the epistemic perspective, where the available observations are just interval-valued perceptions of the unknown true outcomes of the experiment. Unlike typical generalizations of statistical procedures into the interval-valued framework, the proposed test entails very low computational costs. However, the presence of interval-valued data results in set-valued p-value which leads no longer to a definite binary decision (reject or not reject the null hypothesis) but may indicate the abstention from making a final decision if the information is too vague.
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Grzegorzewski, P., Ĺšpiewak, M. (2018). The Mann-Whitney Test for Interval-Valued Data. In: Kacprzyk, J., Szmidt, E., ZadroĹĽny, S., Atanassov, K., Krawczak, M. (eds) Advances in Fuzzy Logic and Technology 2017. EUSFLAT IWIFSGN 2017 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66824-6_17
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