เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การทดสอบอนุกรมของ Wald-Wolfowitz	การทดสอบ Mann-Whitney U test
สาขาวิชา	สถิติศาสตร์	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
ปีกำเนิด	1940	1947
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Abraham Wald & Jacob Wolfowitz	H. B. Mann & D. R. Whitney
ประเภท	Nonparametric randomness test	Nonparametric two-group comparison
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Wald, A. & Wolfowitz, J. (1940). On a test whether two samples are from the same population. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 11(2), 147–162.	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Wald-Wolfowitz test, runs test for randomness, Runs Testi (Wald-Wolfowitz)	Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Mann-Whitney U Testi
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	4
สรุป	The Wald-Wolfowitz runs test is a nonparametric hypothesis test that determines whether a sequence of observations — coded as a series of binary symbols — follows a random pattern or contains systematic structure. Introduced by Abraham Wald and Jacob Wolfowitz in 1940, the test counts the number of uninterrupted runs of identical symbols and asks whether that count is consistent with random arrangement.	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.