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Kruskal Wallis or H-Test

The document discusses the Kruskal-Wallis H test, also known as the one-way ANOVA on ranks. It is a non-parametric test used to compare three or more independent groups when the assumptions of ANOVA are not met. The test compares median scores across groups using a chi-square distribution. An example is provided of using the Kruskal-Wallis H test to determine if three groups of workers (women, men, minorities) have different salaries. The steps involve ranking the data, summing the ranks for each group, calculating the H statistic, and comparing it to the critical chi-square value to determine if the medians are statistically different.

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Kruskal Wallis or H-Test

The document discusses the Kruskal-Wallis H test, also known as the one-way ANOVA on ranks. It is a non-parametric test used to compare three or more independent groups when the assumptions of ANOVA are not met. The test compares median scores across groups using a chi-square distribution. An example is provided of using the Kruskal-Wallis H test to determine if three groups of workers (women, men, minorities) have different salaries. The steps involve ranking the data, summing the ranks for each group, calculating the H statistic, and comparing it to the critical chi-square value to determine if the medians are statistically different.

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  • Introduction to Kruskal Wallis or H-Test
  • What is Kruskal Wallis or H-Test?
  • Examples of Applications
  • Formula for H-Test
  • Running the H-Test
  • Step-by-Step H-Test Process

KRUSKAL

WALLIS OR H-
TEST

BY: RONE TABA


WHAT IS KRUSKAL WALLIS OR
H-TEST?
The Kruskal Wallis test is the non-parametric
alternative to the One Way ANOVA. Non-parametric
means that the test doesn’t assume your data comes
from a particular distribution. The H test is used when
the assumptions for ANOVA aren’t met (like the
assumption of normality). It is sometimes called the
one-way ANOVA on ranks, as the ranks of the data
values are used in the test rather than the actual data
points.
Examples of problems that
needs application of H-Test
– You want to find out how test anxiety affects actual test
scores. The independent variable “test anxiety” has three
levels: no anxiety, low-medium anxiety and high anxiety. The
dependent variable is the exam score, rated from 0 to 100%.
-You want to find out how socioeconomic status affects
attitude towards sales tax increases. Your independent
variable is “socioeconomic status” with three levels: working
class, middle class and wealthy. The dependent variable is
measured on a 5-point Likert scale from strongly agree to
strongly disagree.
FORMULA

Where:
n = sum of sample sizes for all samples
c = number of samples
Tj = sum of ranks in the jth sample
nj = size of the jth sample
Running the H-Test

Sample question: A shoe company wants


to know if three groups of workers have
different salaries:
Women: 23K, 41K, 54K, 66K, 78K.
Men: 45K, 55K, 60K, 70K, 72K
Minorities: 18K, 30K, 34K, 40K, 44K.
Step 1: Sort the data for all
groups/samples into ascending order
in one combined set.

20K
23K
30K
34K
40K
41K
44K
45K
54K
55K
60K
66K
70K
72K
90K
Step 2: Assign ranks to the sorted
data points.Give tied values the
average rank.

20K 1
23K 2
30K 3
34K 4
40K 5
41K 6
44K 7
45K 8
54K 9
55K 10
60K 11
66K 12
70K 13
72K 14
90K 15
Step 3: Add up the different
ranks for each
group/sample.
Women: 23K, 41K, 54K, 66K, 90K = 2 + 6 +
9 + 12 + 15 = 44.
Men: 45K, 55K, 60K, 70K, 72K = 8 + 10 + 11
+ 13 + 14 = 56.
Minorities: 20K, 30K, 34K, 40K, 44K = 1 + 3
+ 4 + 5 + 7 = 20.
Step 4: Calculate the H
statistic:
Step 5: Find the critical chi-square
value, with c-1 degrees of freedom.

For 3 – 1 degrees of freedom and an alpha


level of .05, the critical chi-square value is
5.9915.
Step 6: Compare the H value from
Step 4 to the critical chi-square
value from Step 5.
– If the critical chi-square value is less than the H statistic, 
reject the null hypothesis and that the medians are equal.
– If the chi-square value is not less than the H statistic, there
is not enough evidence to suggest that the medians are
unequal.
– In this case, 5.9915 is less than 6.72, so you can reject the
null hypothesis.

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