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<div class="block">An implementation of the Mann-Whitney U test (also called Wilcoxon rank-sum test).</div>
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<div class="block">Create a test instance using the given strategies for NaN's and ties.
 Only use this if you are sure of what you are doing.</div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>nanStrategy</code> - specifies the strategy that should be used for Double.NaN's</dd><dd><code>tiesStrategy</code> - specifies the strategy that should be used for ties</dd></dl>
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<pre>public&nbsp;double&nbsp;mannWhitneyU(double[]&nbsp;x,
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<div class="block">Computes the <a
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U"> Mann-Whitney
 U statistic</a> comparing mean for two independent samples possibly of
 different length.
 <p>
 This statistic can be used to perform a Mann-Whitney U test evaluating
 the null hypothesis that the two independent samples has equal mean.
 </p>
 <p>
 Let X<sub>i</sub> denote the i'th individual of the first sample and
 Y<sub>j</sub> the j'th individual in the second sample. Note that the
 samples would often have different length.
 </p>
 <p>
 <strong>Preconditions</strong>:
 <ul>
 <li>All observations in the two samples are independent.</li>
 <li>The observations are at least ordinal (continuous are also ordinal).</li>
 </ul>
 </p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>x</code> - the first sample</dd><dd><code>y</code> - the second sample</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>Mann-Whitney U statistic (maximum of U<sup>x</sup> and U<sup>y</sup>)</dd>
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<dd><code><a href="../../../../../../org/apache/commons/math3/exception/NullArgumentException.html" title="class in org.apache.commons.math3.exception">NullArgumentException</a></code> - if <code>x</code> or <code>y</code> are <code>null</code>.</dd>
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<pre>public&nbsp;double&nbsp;mannWhitneyUTest(double[]&nbsp;x,
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<div class="block">Returns the asymptotic <i>observed significance level</i>, or <a href=
 "http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/hyptest.html#pvalue">
 p-value</a>, associated with a <a
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U"> Mann-Whitney
 U statistic</a> comparing mean for two independent samples.
 <p>
 Let X<sub>i</sub> denote the i'th individual of the first sample and
 Y<sub>j</sub> the j'th individual in the second sample. Note that the
 samples would often have different length.
 </p>
 <p>
 <strong>Preconditions</strong>:
 <ul>
 <li>All observations in the two samples are independent.</li>
 <li>The observations are at least ordinal (continuous are also ordinal).</li>
 </ul>
 </p><p>
 Ties give rise to biased variance at the moment. See e.g. <a
 href="http://mlsc.lboro.ac.uk/resources/statistics/Mannwhitney.pdf"
 >http://mlsc.lboro.ac.uk/resources/statistics/Mannwhitney.pdf</a>.</p></div>
<dl><dt><span class="strong">Parameters:</span></dt><dd><code>x</code> - the first sample</dd><dd><code>y</code> - the second sample</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>asymptotic p-value</dd>
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