Nonparametric statistical tests on data with negative and positive values
Dear Biostars Community,
I have some single-sample gene set enrichment scores acquired from gene expression data and would like to perform nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney two-sample test and the Kruskal-Wallis (one-way ANOVA alternative) test. However, since this data contains negative values, will these tests still perform properly?
Thanks,
SB
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The Mann-Whitney (aka Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test) and Kruskal-Wallis tests only require that you can rank the values and that the samples are independent.
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