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The Mann-Whitney test is designed to use the data from two separate samples to evaluate the difference between two treatments. Individual scores in the two samples should be rank-ordered. The Mann-Whitney test compares two distributions rather than two means.
If the 2 samples are combined and all the scores placed in rank order, the scores from one sample should be concentrated at one end of the line and the scores from the other sample should be concentrated at the other end.
If there is no treatment difference, large and small scores will be mixed evenly in the 2 samples because there is no reason for one set of scores to be systematically larger or smaller than the other.
Example
nA = 6 nB = 6
Sample A Sample B 27 71 2 63 9 18 48 68 6 94 15 8
RANK 1
SCORE 2
SAMPLE (A)
2
3 4 5
6
8 9 15
(A)
(B) (A) (A)
6 points
5 points 5 points 4 points 4 points
Each score in sample A is assigned 1 point for every score in sample B that has a higher rank. UA = 6 + 6 + 5 + 5 + 4 + 4 = 30 UB = 6 UA + UB = nAnB 30 + 6 = 6(6) U = 36
6
7 8 9 10 11 12
18
27 48 63 68 71 94
(B)
(A) (A) (B) (B) (B) (B)