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Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

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Encyclopedia of Systems Biology

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Mann–Whitney test; Mann–Whitney U; Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon; MWW

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, Fig. 1
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The rhombus and cross represent data from sets X and Y, respectively

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  1. Seattle Children’s Research Institute, 19000 9th Ave, C9S-9, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA

    Winston Haynes

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  1. Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK

    Werner Dubitzky

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Olaf Wolkenhauer

  3. Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Kwang-Hyun Cho

  4. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Hiroki Yokota

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Haynes, W. (2013). Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_1185

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