The Skillings-Mack test (Friedman test when there are missing data)
The Skillings-Mack test (Friedman test when there are missing data)
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DOI:
10.1177/1536867x0900900208
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
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影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Mander, Adrian
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作者:
Chatfield, Mark;Mander, Adrian
The Skillings-Mack statistic (Skillings and Mack, 1981, Technometrics 23: 171-177) is a general Friedman-type statistic that call be used ill almost any block design with an arbitrary missing-data structure. The missing data call be either missing by design, for example, all incomplete block design, or missing completely at random. The Skillings-Mack test is equivalent to the Friedman test when there are no missing data ill a balanced complete block design, and the Skillings-Mack test is equivalent to the test suggested in Durbin (1951, British Journal of Psychology, Statistical Section 4: 85-90) for a balanced incomplete block design. The Friedman test was implemented in Stata by Goldstein (19911 Stata Technical Bulletin 3: 26-27) and further developed in Goldstein (2005, Stata, Journal 5: 285). This article introduces the skilmack command, which performs the Skillings-Mack test.The skilmack command is also useful when there are many ties or equal ranks (N.B. the Friedman statistic compared with the chi(2) distribution will give a conservative result), as well as for small samples, appropriate results call be obtained by simulating the distribution of the test statistic under the mill hypothesis.