SUBROUTINE MPAIR PURPOSE PERFORM THE WILCOXON MATCHED-PAIRS SIGNED-RANKS TEST, GIVEN TWO VECTORS OF N OBSERVATIONS OF THE MATCHED SAMPLES. USAGE CALL MPAIR (N,A,B,K,T,Z,P,D,E,L,IE) DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS N - NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS IN THE VECTORS A AND B A - INPUT VECTOR OF LENGTH N CONTAINING DATA FROM THE FIRST SAMPLE B - INPUT VECTOR OF LENGTH N CONTAINING DATA FROM THE SECOND SAMPLE K - OUTPUT VARIABLE CONTAINING THE NUMBER OF PAIRS OF THE MATCHED SAMPLES WHOSE DIFFERENCES ARE NON ZERO (0) T - OUTPUT VARIABLE CONTAINING THE SUM OF THE RANKS OF PLUS OR MINUS DIFFERENCES, WHICHEVER IS SMALLER Z - VALUE OF THE STANDARDIZED NORMAL SCORE COMPUTED FOR THE WILCOXON MATCHED-PAIRS SIGNED-RANKS TEST P - COMPUTED PROBABILITY OF OBTAINING A VALUE OF Z AS EXTREME AS THE ONE FOUND BY THE TEST D - WORKING VECTOR OF LENGTH N E - WORKING VECTOR OF LENGTH N L - WORKING VECTOR OF LENGTH N IE- 1, IF SAMPLES A AND B ARE IDENTICAL. 0 OTHERWISE. IF IE=1, THEN T=P=0, AND Z=-10**75 REMARKS THE COMPUTED PROBABILTY IS FOR A ONE-TAILED TEST. MULTIPLYING P BY 2 WILL GIVE THE VALUE FOR A TWO-TAILED TEST. SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTIONS SUBPROGRAMS REQUIRED RANK NDTR METHOD REFER TO DIXON AND MASSEY, AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (MC GRAW-HILL, 1957)