Date:         Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:19:11 +0200
Reply-To:     Andreas Schneider <Andreas.H.Schneider@ifes.uni-erlangen.de>
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From:         Andreas Schneider <Andreas.H.Schneider@ifes.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Institut für empirische Soziologie a
              n der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nü
              rnberg
Subject:      Weighting and Nonparametric Tests
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Dear listers,

we have a dataset of about 4.500 respondents and weighted it by a
weighting variable which is standardized by the number of cases, so that
the number of cases in the weighted and the unweighted dataset is the same.

Calculating nonparametric tests like Kruskal-Wallis, however, provides a
"wrong" (too large) number of cases for the weighted data.

Does this mean nonparametric tests can or should not be used with
weighted datasets?

Thanks in advance

Andreas


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Andreas H. Schneider
Dipl.-Sozialwirt

Institut für empirische Soziologie
an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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