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756 Appendix tables<br />

Table A6 Percentage po<strong>in</strong>ts for the Wilcoxon signed rank sum test<br />

The function tabulated is the critical value for the smaller of the signed rank sums, T‡ and T .An<br />

observed value equal to or less than the tabulated value is significant at the two-sided significance<br />

level shown (the actual tail-area probability be<strong>in</strong>g less than or equal to the nom<strong>in</strong>al value shown). If<br />

ties are present, the result is somewhat more significant than is <strong>in</strong>dicated here.<br />

Sample size, n 0<br />

(exclud<strong>in</strong>g zero<br />

differences)<br />

Two-sided significance level<br />

0 05 0 01<br />

6 0 Ð<br />

7 2 Ð<br />

8 3 0<br />

9 5 1<br />

10 8 3<br />

11 10 5<br />

12 137<br />

1317 9<br />

14 21 12<br />

15 25 15<br />

16 29 19<br />

17 34 23<br />

18 40 27<br />

19 46 32<br />

20 52 37<br />

21 58 42<br />

22 66 48<br />

237354<br />

24 81 61<br />

25 89 68<br />

Condensed from the Geigy Scientific Tables (1982), by<br />

permission of the authors and publishers.

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