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.scha...@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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.