title: A nonparametric approach to the discrimination of two cell populations.
abstract: An approach to the statistical testing of differences between two cell populations the elements of which are characterized by multivariate data is described. The approach is based on the Fisher discriminant and the Kruskal-Wallis test. The method, which is sufficient but not necessary, makes no assumptions about the normality of the data or about the equality of the covariance matrices for each population.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells; D003584:Cytological Techniques; D013223:Statistics as Topic