Silverstein's Nonparametric Many-One Test for a One-Way Design: A Monte Carlo Study

Abstract

A Monte Carlo study was done to find the Type I error rates for three nonparametric procedures for making k − 1 many-one comparisons in a one-way design. The tests ( t) were the Silverstein and Steel many-one ranks tests and the two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum test, k = 3, 5, 7, and 10 treatments were crossed with n = 7, 10, and 15 replicates with 1000 simulations per k, n combination. Analyses of four Type I error rates showed that: (1) The Wilcoxon test had the best comparisonwise error rates; (2) none of the tests functioned well as protected tests; and (3) the Silverstein test had the best experimentwise error rates and was the recommended procedure for many-one tests for a one-way layout.