Post hoc tests

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  • Post hoc tests help identify which groups are significantly different from each other when the ANOVA or a similar test indicates a significant overall difference but doesn't specify which groups differ.
  • Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD):
    Appropriate when comparing all possible pairs of means.
  • Bonferroni Correction:
    Adjusts the significance level to control for multiple comparisons.
  • Dunnett's Test:
    Useful when comparing each treatment group to a control group.
  • Scheffe's Test:
    Suitable for a large number of comparisons. It is less conservative but requires a larger sample size to maintain statistical power.
  • Post hoc tests help identify which pairs of groups have statistically significant differences in means.
  • Kruskal-Wallis Test is a non-parametric test that is used to compare the differences between two or more groups of data.
  • K-S is an extension of the Mann-Whitney U test for more than two groups.
  • Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test merges all the observations from two classes and rank them in ascending order.