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

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