The Kruskal-Wallis Test and Stochastic Homogeneity
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For the comparison of more than two independent samples the Kruskal-Wallis H test is a preferred procedure in many situations. However, the exact null and alternative hypotheses, as well as the assumptions of this test, do not seem to be very clear among behavioral scientists. This article attempts to bring some order to the inconsistent, sometimes controversial treatments of the Kruskal-Wallis test. First we clarify that the H test cannot detect with consistently increasing power any alternative hypothesis other than exceptions to stochastic homogeneity. It is then shown by a mathematical derivation that stochastic homogeneity is equivalent to the equality of the expected values of the rank sample means. This finding implies that the null hypothesis of stochastic homogeneity can be tested by an ANOVA performed on the rank transforms, which is essentially equivalent to doing a Kruskal-Wallis H test. If the variance homogeneity condition does not hold then it is suggested that robust ANOVA alternatives performed on ranks be used for testing stochastic homogeneity. Generalizations are also made with respect to Friedman’s G test.
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