Table 2 Summary of statistical tests, their abbreviations and software used.
From: The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats
Parametric Yes/No | Test | Abbreviation | Effect size | Software |
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N | Wilcoxon rank sum | WRS | Cohen’s U3 (U3, fraction of values in group 1 less than those in group 2 or the test value in a one-sample test) | Matlab function ranksum |
N | Wilcoxon signed rank | WSR | – | Matlab function signrank |
N | Kolmogorov–Smirnov | KS | – | Matlab kstest2 |
N | Chi-square test of expected proportions | CST | Odds ratio (OR, the ratio of the odds of an event occurring in one group to the odds of it occurring in another group) | GraphPad, QuickCalcs |
Y | Bootstrap modality test | – | – | Matlab function, bootmode |
N | Kruskal–Wallis | KW | Partial eta squared (\(\eta _p^2\), proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by an independent variable) | Matlab function kruskalwallis |
N | Friedman test | FT | Matlab function friedman | |
Y | Univariate ANOVA | – | SPSS 25, generalized linear models | |
Y | Repeated measures ANOVA | – |  | |
N | Permutation F-test | – | – | Matlab, custom functions |