muStat (version 1.7.0)

muStat-package: Prentice (Friedman/Wilcoxon/Kruskal) Rank Sum Test, Stratified McNemar (TDT, Sign) Test and u/mu-Scores for Multivariate Data

Description

Performs a generalized Friedman rank sum test with replicated blocked data or, as special cases, a Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test on data following a one-way layout, or a Wilcoxon rank sum test following a one-way layout with only two groups, or a stratified McNemar/sign test using a notion adopted to genetic association studies (TDT). Generates u/mu-scores of univariate and multivariate data to be used with these tests.

Author

Knut M. Wittkowski [e-mail], Tingting Song [e-mail] Maintainer: Tingting Song [e-mail]

Details

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