Biomeasurement Calculation Sheet by Toby Carter & Dawn Hawkins (www.biomeasurement.

net)
Mann-Whitney U Test
Note - White cells are editable
Calculation Space
STEP 1

State your null hypothesis (H0)

e.g. H0 = There is no difference between the populations from which two unrelated samples come.

STEP 2

Choose a critical significance level (a)

(Note - only a=0.05 is available on this spreadsheet)
a=

STEP 3

Calculate the test statistic

Calculated Value of U
Small U =
120.5
n1 =

STEP 4

0.05

Large U =
n2 =

20

Reject of accept your null hypothesis

See Box 7.7 Page 143
Critical Value of U
Small U =
127

279.5
20

Or
Large U =

Which is greatest?
Critical U
Therefore
REJECT
Null Hypothesis

273

Calculated U
Therefore
REJECT
Null Hypothesis

Data
Sample 1
Sample 2
0.972
0.905
0.732
1.016
0.874
0.873
0.943
0.74
1.024
0.861
0.755
0.817
0.779
0.897
1.007
0.962
0.816
0.851
0.755
0.821
0.871
0.763
0.721
0.876
0.727
0.944
0.796
0.993
0.612
0.774
0.775
0.785
0.849
0.892
0.773
1.076
0.649
0.888
0.865
0.865

Excel Ranks
Sample 1 Sample 2
35.0
31.0
5.0
38.0
26.0
25.0
32.0
6.0
39.0
21.0
7.0
17.0
13.0
30.0
37.0
34.0
16.0
20.0
7.0
18.0
24.0
9.0
3.0
27.0
4.0
33.0
15.0
36.0
1.0
11.0
12.0
14.0
19.0
29.0
10.0
40.0
2.0
28.0
22.0
22.0
n
R
U

Hawkins (2005) Biomeasurement . Chapter 7, Pages 142-150

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Check

20
329.0
121
U1 + U2
402

20
489.0
281
n1 * n2
400

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U1
120.5

U2
279.5

Adjusted Ranks
Sample 1 Sample 2
35.0
31.0
5.0
38.0
26.0
25.0
32.0
6.0
39.0
21.0
7.5
17.0
13.0
30.0
37.0
34.0
16.0
20.0
7.5
18.0
24.0
9.0
3.0
27.0
4.0
33.0
15.0
36.0
1.0
11.0
12.0
14.0
19.0
29.0
10.0
40.0
2.0
28.0
22.5
22.5
20
330.5
120.5
U1 + U2
400

20
489.5
279.5
n1 * n2
400

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Hawkins (2005) Biomeasurement . Chapter 7, Box 7.6, Page 143

Mann-Whitney U Test

U 1 = n1 n2
U 2 = n1 n 2
CHECK

Where

n2 n2 1
2

R2

n1 n1 1
R1
2

U1 U 2 = n1n2

ni

=size of sample i

Ri

=sum of Ranks of sample i

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n2 n2 1
2

R2

n1 n1 1
R1
2

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