Wilcoxon is a surname, and may refer to: *

Charles Wilcoxon Charles "Charley" Wilcoxon was an American drum teacher and drum method book writer. He wrote several influential books on rudimental drumming that are still used by drum teachers today. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. ...

, drum educator *

Henry Wilcoxon Harry Frederick Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984), known as Henry Wilcoxon, was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and who was a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associat ...

, an actor *

Frank Wilcoxon Frank Wilcoxon (2 September 1892 – 18 November 1965) was a chemist and statistician, known for the development of several statistical tests. Education and career Frank Wilcoxon was born to American parents on 2 September 1892 in County Cor ...

, chemist and statistician, inventor of two

non-parametric Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being distri ...

tests for

statistical significance In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis (simply by chance alone). More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the p ...

: ** The

Wilcoxon signed-rank test The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test used either to test the location of a population based on a sample of data, or to compare the locations of two populations using two matched samples., p. 350 The one-sa ...

(also known as the Wilcoxon T test) ** The Wilcoxon rank-sum test (also known as the Mann–Whitney U test).

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