Wilcoxon is a surname, and may refer to: * Charles Wilcoxon, drum educator *

Henry Wilcoxon Henry Wilcoxon (born Harry Frederick Wilcoxon; 8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984) was a British-American actor and film producer, born in the British West Indies. He was known as an actor in many of director Cecil B. DeMille's films, also ser ...

, an actor * Frank Wilcoxon, chemist and statistician, inventor of two

non-parametric Nonparametric statistics is a type of statistical analysis that makes minimal assumptions about the underlying distribution of the data being studied. Often these models are infinite-dimensional, rather than finite dimensional, as in parametric sta ...

tests for

statistical significance In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were true. More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the ...

: ** The Wilcoxon signed-rank test (also known as the Wilcoxon T test) ** The Wilcoxon rank-sum test (also known as the Mann–Whitney U test).

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