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Non-significant results when running Kruskal-Wallis, significant results when running Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Flinger pairwise comparisons

What is ANOVA? It is important to note some of the reasons that ANOVA exist, as it can provide some context about how you should consider your omnibus ANOVA and the pairwise tests that accompany them (...
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Non-significant results when running Kruskal-Wallis, significant results when running Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Flinger pairwise comparisons

My question is - is DSCF a post-hoc test which is supposed to only be applied when statistically significant differences are found on Kruskal-Wallis? Yes, the Kruskal-Wallis test is a non-parametric ...
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Non-significant results when running Kruskal-Wallis, significant results when running Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Flinger pairwise comparisons

To me, this question is the same as whether to do any kind of pairwise comparisons after ANOVA. The fact that you used a nonparametric test doesn't change the key issues. This issue has been discussed ...
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