방법 비교

	동등성 검정 (TOST	Mann-Whitney U 검정
분야	통계학	통계학
계열	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
기원 연도	1987	1947
창시자	Donald J. Schuirmann	H. B. Mann & D. R. Whitney
유형	Parametric equivalence test	Nonparametric two-group comparison
원전	Schuirmann, D.J. (1987). A Comparison of the Two One-Sided Tests Procedure and the Power Approach for Assessing the Equivalence of Average Bioavailability. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics, 15(6), 657–680.	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.
별칭	TOST, two one-sided tests, bioequivalence test, Eşdeğerlik Testi (TOST — Two One-Sided Tests)	Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Mann-Whitney U Testi
관련	5	4
요약	The equivalence test using the Two One-Sided Tests (TOST) procedure is a parametric hypothesis test designed to demonstrate that the difference between two group means falls within a pre-specified equivalence region ±Δ. Introduced by Schuirmann (1987) in the context of pharmaceutical bioequivalence, TOST reverses the logic of classical null-hypothesis testing: instead of trying to detect a difference, it provides positive evidence of similarity.	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.