st: Re: Testing for difference between two medians

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Please try the built-in help system before posting basic questions:

search median test, all

yields many hits.  -somersd- and -cendif- may be of particular interest

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
"Ashwin Ananthakrishnan" <ashwinna@yahoo.com> wrote

> Hi,
>
> I have the outcome variable in a research project as
> the waiting time, which is a continuos variable.
> However it is a skewed distribution and therefore I
> would like to use the medians instead of means. If I
> want to compare the median waiting time between
> different subgroups, for example male vs. female, or
> low income vs. medium income vs. high income, how do I
> go about doing that? 
> To my understanding the t-test or anova looks only for
> differences in the means. In case of a skewed
> distribution, is it appropriate to use them for this
> purpose?
>
> Thanks.
> Ashwin
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