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Equality of means/medians hypothesis testAn equality hypothesis test formally tests if two or more population means/medians are different.

The hypotheses to test depends on the number of samples:

  • For two samples, the null hypothesis states that the difference between the mean/medians of the populations is equal to a hypothesized value (0 indicating no difference), against the alternative hypothesis that it is not equal to (or less than, or greater than) the hypothesized value.
  • For more than two samples, the null hypothesis states that the means/medians of the populations are equal, against the alternative hypothesis that at least one population mean/median is different.

When the test p-value is small, you can reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the populations differ in means/medians.

Tests for more than two samples are omnibus tests and do not tell you which groups differ from each other. You should use multiple comparisons to make these inferences.

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From the Statistical Reference Guide for Analyse-it 6.24.0: https://analyse-it.com/docs/user-guide/compare-groups/equality-mean-median-hypothesis-test

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