Mann-Whitney U test: Options
The Options dialog provides settings for specifying the confidence interval, significance level, and missing values settings.
- Confidence interval
- Sets the confidence level for all confidence intervals produced for the selected variables. The default value is 95%.
- Significance level
- Sets the significance level (alpha) for all tests. The default value is 0.05.
- Case basis for analyses
- Controls the treatment of missing values.
- Exclude cases analysis by analysis
- When several tests are specified, each test is evaluated separately for missing values.
- Exclude cases listwise
- Cases with missing values for any variable are excluded from all analyses.
- User-missing values for categorical fields
- Controls whether user-missing values for categorical fields are treated as
valid values.
- Exclude user-missing values
- User-missing values are excluded from the output. This is the default setting.
- Include user-missing values
- User-missing values are included in the output.
Specifying options for the Mann-Whitney U test
This feature requires Statistics Base Edition.
- From the menus choose:
- In the Mann-Whitney U Test dialog, expand the Additional settings menu and click Options.