PSYCHOLOGICAL

STATISTICS
MEDIAN TEST
MEDIAN TEST

MEDIAN TEST IS THAT NON PARAMATRIC TEST WHICH IS

EMPLOYED FOR KNOWING WHETHER OR NOT THE TWO
INDEPENDENT SAMPLES (NOT NECESSARILY OF SAME SIZE) HAVE
BEEN DRAWN FROM THE POPULATIONS WITH THE SAME MEDIAN.

IT PROVIDES A TECHNIQUE FOR COMPARING THE BASIC

TENDENCIES OF TWOINDEPENDENT SAMPLES.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIAN TEST

IT IS NON PARAMETRIC TEST

IT CAN ONLY BE USE FOR QUANTITATIVE ORDINAL DATA

MEDIAN TEST ASSUMPTIONS

EACH SAMPLE IS A RANDOM SAMPLE

THE SAMPLES ARE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER
THE MEASUREMENT SCALE IS AT LEAST ORDINAL (I.E., THE DATA
CAN BE RANKED)