Figure 3

The comparison of the effectiveness of the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon two-tailed u-test (solid lines) and the Student’s two-tailed t-test (dotted lines). The linear growth of 20% has been simulated, the tests were used with p-value 0.001. The ensemble of 2000 simulations has been used with 60 spines per sample. For n<7 in case of the u-test there is no positive outcome. If the number of samples was small, the u-test could not provide any positive outcome due to the character of the test (the u-test is based on a discrete spectrum of order ranking obtained through permutations)