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Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Error to report with median and graphical representations? up vote 11 down vote favorite 2 I've used a wide array of tests for my thesis data, from parametric ANOVAs and t-tests to non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis tests and Mann-Whitneys,
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as well as rank-transformed 2-way ANOVAs, and GzLMs with binary, poisson and proportional data. Now I need to report everything as I write all of this up in my results. I've already asked here how to report asymmetrical confidence intervals for proportion data. I know that standard deviation, standard error or confidence intervals are appropriate for means, which is what I'd report if all my tests were nicely parametric. However, for my non-parametric tests, should I be reporting medians and not means? If so, what error would I report with it? Associated with this is how best to present non-parametric test results graphically. Since I largely have continuous or interval data within categories, I'm generally using bar graphs, with the top of the bar being the mean and error bars showing 95% CI. For NP tests, can I still use bar graphs, but have the top of the bar represent the median? Thanks for your suggestions! data-visualization median error share|improve this question edited Jun 3 '11 at 0:52 asked May 31 '11 at 22:03 Mog 4382820 Something doesn't compute. How can you have mean
of the variability of a univariate sample of quantitative data. It can also refer to the population parameter that is estimated by the MAD calculated from a sample. For a univariate data set X1,X2,...,Xn, the MAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation is defined as the median of the absolute deviations from the data's median: MAD = median ( | X i − median ( X ) | ) , {\displaystyle \operatorname {MAD} http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/03/29/most-researchers-dont-understa/ =\operatorname {median} \left(\ \left|X_{i}-\operatorname {median} (X)\right|\ \right),\,} that is, starting with the residuals (deviations) from the data's median, the MAD is the median of their absolute values. Contents 1 Example 2 Uses 3 Relation to error bars standard deviation 4 The population MAD 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References Example[edit] Consider the data (1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 6, 9). It has a median value of 2. The absolute deviations about 2 are (1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 4, 7) which in turn have a median value of 1 (because the sorted absolute deviations are (0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 7)). So the median absolute error bars for deviation for this data is 1. Uses[edit] The median absolute deviation is a measure of statistical dispersion. Moreover, the MAD is a robust statistic, being more resilient to outliers in a data set than the standard deviation. In the standard deviation, the distances from the mean are squared, so large deviations are weighted more heavily, and thus outliers can heavily influence it. In the MAD, the deviations of a small number of outliers are irrelevant. Because the MAD is a more robust estimator of scale than the sample variance or standard deviation, it works better with distributions without a mean or variance, such as the Cauchy distribution. Relation to standard deviation[edit] In order to use the MAD as a consistent estimator for the estimation of the standard deviation σ, one takes σ ^ = k ⋅ MAD , {\displaystyle {\hat {\sigma }}=k\cdot \operatorname {MAD} ,\,} where k is a constant scale factor, which depends on the distribution.[1] For normally distributed data k is taken to be: k = 1 / ( Φ − 1 ( 3 / 4 ) ) ≈ 1.4826 {\displaystyle k=1/\left(\Phi ^{-1}(3/4)\right)\approx 1.4826} , i.e., the reciprocal of the quantile function Φ − 1 {\displaystyle \Phi ^{-1}} (also known as the inverse of the cumulative di
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