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Re: st: Statistics with negative data


From   "JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Statistics with negative data
Date   Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:11:13 -0500

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, MIGUEL ANGEL GRUPO DE INVESTIGACIO
ODONT SIMANCAS PALLARES <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Statalisters.
>
> I have some continous data to work with. Some of the observations are
> negative values. How to make appropiate statistics in Stata to deal
> with this negative values? I want to be sure that the statistics are
> correctly performed. I want to perform descriptive statistics and then
> non-parametric statistics such as t-test's and Kruskal-Wallis.

The t-test isn't a nonparametric test, but Kruskal-Wallis is. In neither
case would the presence of negative values matter. A rank-based procedure
like Kruskal-Wallis blows away the original scale of the data anyhow
because of the rank transformation. It will have issues in the presence of
ties.
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