R: Baumgartner Weiss Schindler test of equal distributions.

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## Baumgartner Weiss Schindler test of equal distributions.

### Description

Baumgartner Weiss Schindler test.

### Background

The Baumgartner Weiss Schindler test is a two sample test of the null that the samples come from the same probability distribution, similar to the Kolmogorv-Smirnov, Wilcoxon, and Cramer-Von Mises tests. It is similar to the Cramer-Von Mises test in that it estimates the square norm of the difference in CDFs of the two samples. However, the Baumgartner Weiss Schindler test weights the integral by the variance of the difference in CDFs, "[emphasizing] the tails of the distributions, which increases the power of the test for a lot of applications."

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### Author(s)

Steven E. Pav shabbychef@gmail.com

### References

W. Baumgartner, P. Weiss, H. Schindler, 'A nonparametric test for the general two-sample problem', Biometrics 54, no. 3 (Sep., 1998): pp. 1129-1135. http://doai.io/10.2307/2533862

M. Neuhauser, 'Exact tests based on the Baumgartner-Weiss-Schindler Statistic–a survey', Statistical Papers 46, no. 1 (2005): pp. 1-30. http://doai.io/10.1007/BF02762032

M. Neuhauser, 'One-sided two-sample and trend tests based on a modified Baumgartner-Weiss-Schindler statistic', J. Nonparametric Statistics 13, no. 5 (2001): pp 729-739. http://doai.io/10.1080/10485250108832874

H. Murakami, 'K-sample rank test based on modified Baumgartner statistic and its power comparison', J. Jpn. Comp. Statist. 19, no. 1 (2006): pp. 1-13. http://doai.io/10.5183/jjscs1988.19.1

H. Murakami, 'Modified Baumgartner Statistics for the two-sample and multisample problems: a numerical comparison', J. Stat. Comp. and Sim. 82, no. 5 (2012): pp. 711-728. http://doai.io/10.1080/00949655.2010.551516

H. Murakami, 'Lepage type statistic based on the modified Baumgartner statistic', Comp. Stat. & Data Analysis 51 (2007): pp 5061-5067. http://doai.io/10.1016/j.csda.2006.04.026

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