统计问题第154问：两相关组的非参数统计方法

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Question Researchers investigated the effects on the health of bar staff of legislation for smoke free workplaces implemented in the Republic of Ireland in 2004. They used a before and after study design. Participants were bar staff in public houses in the Republic of Ireland. Bar staff in public houses in Northern Ireland acted as a control group. The analyses included exposure of non-smokers to secondhand smoke. Outcome measures included the laboratory assessment of salivary cotinine concentration, which was compared before and after the law change. In total, 111 participants in the Republic of Ireland and 20 in Northern Ireland had cotinine concentrations measured at baseline and one year later at follow-up. Non-parametric statistical tests were used, as the distribution of salivary cotinine concentration was not normal. The median salivary cotinine concentration of bar staff in the Republic of Ireland was 29.0 nmol/L before the legislation and 5.1 nmol/L afterwards (median within-s ………………………………