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	符号検定 (Sign Test)	マン・ホイットニーのU検定
分野	統計学	統計学
系統	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
提唱年	1946	1947
提唱者	W. J. Dixon & A. M. Mood	H. B. Mann & D. R. Whitney
種類	Nonparametric median test	Nonparametric two-group comparison
原典	Dixon, W. J. & Mood, A. M. (1946). The statistical sign test. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 41(236), 557–566.	Mann, H. B. & Whitney, D. R. (1947). On a test of whether one of two random variables is stochastically larger than the other. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 18(1), 50–60.
別名	İşaret Testi (Sign Test), one-sample sign test, paired sign test	Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Mann-Whitney U Testi
関連	4	4
概要	The sign test is the simplest nonparametric hypothesis test for deciding whether the median of paired differences — or of a single sample — differs significantly from a hypothesised value. Formalised by W. J. Dixon and A. M. Mood in 1946, it imposes virtually no distributional assumptions and can be applied to any data where individual differences can be classified as positive or negative.	The Mann-Whitney U test is the nonparametric alternative to the independent samples t-test, comparing two independent groups by ranking all observations together rather than relying on their means. It was introduced by H. B. Mann and D. R. Whitney in 1947 and does not require the data to be normally distributed.