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

Henry Wilcoxon Harry Frederick Wilcoxon (8 September 1905 – 6 March 1984), known as Henry Wilcoxon, was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and who was a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's asso ...

, an actor * Frank Wilcoxon, chemist and statistician, inventor of two non-parametric tests for

statistical significance In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis (simply by chance alone). More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the p ...

: ** The

Wilcoxon signed-rank test The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a Non-parametric statistics, non-parametric statistical hypothesis testing, statistical hypothesis test used either to test the Location parameter, location of a population based on a sample of data, or to compare ...

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

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