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1Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK. newcombe@cf.ac.uk
Abstract:
Several asymptotic confidence interval methods for U/mn, the Mann-Whitney U statistic divided by the product of the two sample sizes, are developed and evaluated alongside published methods. Novel methods derived from Gaussian and beta models perform well, though overall a modification of the Hanley-McNeil approach (method 5 in this evaluation) performed better and is recommended for calculating confidence intervals for U/mn for continuously distributed data.
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