Thanks, but Nope -- this is a one-sample test such as one might use for
residuals -- it compares runs against some threshhold -- the W-W test is
a two sample test
Ronan Conroy wrote:
> 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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