I'm in semi-agreement with Steve Self's approach: use a bootstrap
on MANOVA. However, I seem to recall a paper in the Annals of
Statistics in the late 1970s by a statistician named Maronna who
showed that the breakdown point (where contamination wiped you out)
was at 1/k, the number of variables. Thus, if you have more than 7%
contamination (I assume that means non-normal) you have a problem.
But maybe I'm over-interpreting. My initial reaction was to propose
a bootstrap approach as Steve suggested.
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
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Subject: st: RE: non-parametric MANOVA
I find some inconsistency in this request. After all, what would a
non-parametric MANOVA look like except something like a MANOVA,
except that your data have been transformed to ranks? If you are
happy to reduce your data to ranks, why cavil at some other
transformation, which typically would lose less information?
Further, my visceral instinct is that MANOVA is more robust to non-
normality than people fear.
More positively, if this were my problem, I might do
1. MANOVA on original data
2. MANOVA on rank-transformed data
If the conclusions were substantively similar, stop there.
Otherwise, consider what specific transformations were advisable.
Nick
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Jochen Späth
I want to do a Manova (14 different dependent variables, 2 main
factors) and am stuck with the problem that most of my fourteen
variables are not normally distributed (and I do not want to
transform them in order to get them normal since I have only remote
access to the data which complicates things a lot). So, my question
is: is there a way to do such a MANOVA in STATA using non-parametric
techniques (the -kwallis- command allows only for one factor and one
dependent variable as far as I know)?
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