Thomas Lumley 5/12/2017

A ‘polymath’ project on the Wilcoxon test?

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The article discusses a proposed collaborative 'Polymath' project from Timothy Gowers' blog, focusing on a conjecture related to non-transitive (intransitive) dice and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. It explains how dice with identical means can produce non-transitive 'beats' relationships under the Wilcoxon test, with the probability of A beating C approaching 1/2 as the number of die sides increases, highlighting a deep statistical and mathematical puzzle.

A ‘polymath’ project on the Wilcoxon test?

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