Hi all, I am a biostatistician and I have developed my own ranking system for clinical data. I would like to test the efficiency of it w.r.t. to other ranking systems. I would like to simulate the data and after assigning ranks to my observed scores(after neglecting dropouts), observe the type I error. If I want to do a Kruuskal Wallis type of test, what test statistic should I use to test for a difference of "delta" between the two groups (I know "delta" since the data is generated with that difference). The default K-W test statistics test for a NULL difference and I want to see how frequently my ranking system rejects the correct null hypothesis of a "delta" difference. (So my data is now in 2 arrays of unequal lengths due to dropouts, which have the ranks for drug and placebo.) Thank you in advance for your help. ~S