Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test seems to be identified

2017-03-07 Thread Dr. Oliver Walter
Thank you, John. Maybe you or other developers think again about including the non-parametric tests like the Mann Whitney U test in the GUI as well. Some people may not know that PSPP can do these tests. I'm looking forward to the next release of PSPP. Kind regards, Oliver Walter Am 07.03.2

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test seems to be identified

2017-03-06 Thread John Darrington
I pushed a fix for this problem. It will be included in the next release. In the meantime, I suggest that you use the work-around described by Oliver Walter or build your own binary from the git repository. Thanks again for reporting the issue. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encr

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test seems to be identified

2017-03-06 Thread John Darrington
Thank you Mandy for your bug report, and thank you Oliver for your analysis of the problem. I will have a look at this and try to find out what is going on. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A29

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-05 Thread Dr. Oliver Walter
Yes, this would be helpful. By the way: Walter is my family name. Oliver Walter Am 05.03.2017 um 07:34 schrieb John Darrington: On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 11:14:33PM +0100, Dr. Walter Statistics wrote: I cannot confirm your objection, John. I checked it again, now with a published da

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 11:14:33PM +0100, Dr. Walter Statistics wrote: I cannot confirm your objection, John. I checked it again, now with a published data set of 3 - three - different groups. I ran three Mann Whitney U tests (group 1 vs 2 excluding the cases of group 3, group 1 vs

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread Dr. Walter Statistics
I cannot confirm your objection, John. I checked it again, now with a published data set of 3 - three - different groups. I ran three Mann Whitney U tests (group 1 vs 2 excluding the cases of group 3, group 1 vs 3 excluding the cases of group 2, group 2 vs 3 excluding the cases of group 1). The

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 08:38:45PM +0100, Dr. Walter Statistics wrote: I checked it by using a published data set and three different statistical programs including PSPP. I could not find any significant differences between the results. PSPP's Mann Whitney U test procedure seems

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread Dr. Walter Statistics
I checked it by using a published data set and three different statistical programs including PSPP. I could not find any significant differences between the results. PSPP's Mann Whitney U test procedure seems to be working properly. Kind regards, Oliver Walter Am 04.03.2017 um 19:51 schrieb

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread John Darrington
I suspect this is bug 47041 which has been fixed about a year ago. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47041 If you have a build where this has not been fixed, then you can use the work-around described on that page. J' On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Mandy Nuszbaum wrote: Dea

Re: Error in computation of Mann-Whitney-U Test

2017-03-04 Thread Dr. Walter Statistics
Dear Prof. Nuszbaum, your question would be easier to answer if you described it in more detail, e.g. by posting your outputs and / or your data sets (if the sample sizes are small, we could compare the results). Kind regards Oliver Walter --- Dr. Walter Statistics Gabelsberger Straße 27 24