Thread Subject: difference in medians

Is there any matlab function that tests for the difference in medians between two samples with unequal sizes?

"joseph Frank" <josephfrank1969@hotmail.com> wrote in message <he3jg1$kga$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Is there any matlab function that tests for the difference in medians between two samples with unequal sizes?

Why wouldn't

median(Sample1)-median(Sample2)

do the trick?

"joseph Frank" <josephfrank1969@hotmail.com> wrote in message <he3jg1$kga$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Is there any matlab function that tests for the difference in medians between two samples with unequal sizes?

Yes, RANKSUM

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/stats/ranksum.html

hth
Jos