Hi,
Using STATA 8 for Windows.
I'm trying to test if older prisoners are committing
suicide sooner after release from prison than younger
prisoners.
I have 2 variables;
daysaftr: no. of days between release and suicide
agedis40: age at time of release from prison
I have used the Wilcoxon rank-sum test, as follows:
ranksum daysaftr, by (agedis40)
which produces: z=1.842, Prob>|z|=0.0655
But when I use the median test, as follows:
median daysaftr, by (agedis40) exact
this produces: Pearson chi2(1)=1.5380, Pr=0.215
I was expecting these two tests to produce the same
results. Why do they differ? Are they not the same
test?
Many thanks,
Daniel.
Centre for Suicide Prevention
The University of Manchester
Room A3.5, Humanities Building
Devas Street
Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 0722
Fax: 0161 275 0716
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