scipy.stats.kruskal¶
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scipy.stats.
kruskal
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Compute the Kruskal-Wallis H-test for independent samples
The Kruskal-Wallis H-test tests the null hypothesis that the population median of all of the groups are equal. It is a non-parametric version of ANOVA. The test works on 2 or more independent samples, which may have different sizes. Note that rejecting the null hypothesis does not indicate which of the groups differs. Post-hoc comparisons between groups are required to determine which groups are different.
Parameters: sample1, sample2, ... : array_like
Two or more arrays with the sample measurements can be given as arguments.
nan_policy : {‘propagate’, ‘raise’, ‘omit’}, optional
Defines how to handle when input contains nan. ‘propagate’ returns nan, ‘raise’ throws an error, ‘omit’ performs the calculations ignoring nan values. Default is ‘propagate’.
Returns: statistic : float
The Kruskal-Wallis H statistic, corrected for ties
pvalue : float
The p-value for the test using the assumption that H has a chi square distribution
See also
f_oneway
- 1-way ANOVA
mannwhitneyu
- Mann-Whitney rank test on two samples.
friedmanchisquare
- Friedman test for repeated measurements
Notes
Due to the assumption that H has a chi square distribution, the number of samples in each group must not be too small. A typical rule is that each sample must have at least 5 measurements.
References
[R658] W. H. Kruskal & W. W. Wallis, “Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis”, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 47, Issue 260, pp. 583-621, 1952. [R659] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal-Wallis_one-way_analysis_of_variance Examples
>>> from scipy import stats >>> x = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9] >>> y = [2, 4, 6, 8, 10] >>> stats.kruskal(x, y) KruskalResult(statistic=0.27272727272727337, pvalue=0.60150813444058948)
>>> x = [1, 1, 1] >>> y = [2, 2, 2] >>> z = [2, 2] >>> stats.kruskal(x, y, z) KruskalResult(statistic=7.0, pvalue=0.030197383422318501)