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Footer of pairwise comparison diagram for Friedman test

  • 1.  Footer of pairwise comparison diagram for Friedman test

    Posted Fri February 11, 2022 04:30 AM
    Dear SPSS expert team,

    the footer to a pairwise comparisons diagram for a Friedman test is a mystery to me: both the English and the German version seem very strange:

    English: "Each node shows the sample number of successes."
    German back translated to English: "Each node shows the same number of successes."

    Fact: Each node shows the average rank of one of the levels of a repeated measurement factor, i.e. all those averages are based on the same sample (because the Friedman test is a test for related samples).

    I have no idea what "number of successes" is supposed to mean here, or what exactly the intention of those wordings might be. I definitely can't blame my students for being confused by this statement. Can you enlighten me?

    Best regards,
    Ulrike Grömping

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