Wilcoxon
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Wilcoxon is a surname, and may refer to:
- Henry WilcoxonHenry WilcoxonHenry Wilcoxon was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films....
, an actor - Frank WilcoxonFrank WilcoxonFrank Wilcoxon was a chemist and statistician, known for the development of several statistical tests....
, chemist and statistician, inventor of two non-parametric tests for statistical significanceStatisticsStatistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
:- The Wilcoxon signed-rank testWilcoxon signed-rank testThe Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test used when comparing two related samples or repeated measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean ranks differ The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test used...
- The Wilcoxon rank-sum test (also known as the Mann–Whitney U test).
- The Wilcoxon signed-rank test