On 16 Noll 2009, at 15:03, Richard Goldstein wrote:
does anyone know of a program to perform the Wald-Wolfowitz runs test
(Wald, A and Wolfowitz, J (1940), "On a test of whether two samples
are
from the same population," _Annals of Mathematical Statistics_, 11:
147-162)? I have searched in the standard Stata ways (search,
hsearch,
findit), but have found nothing.
. findit runs test?
leads to -runtest-, based on
Swed, F. S., and C. Eisenhart. 1943. Tables for testing
randomness of grouping in a sequence of
alternatives. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 14: 66-87.
Same animal?
Ronan Conroy
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