Stop Using the Wilcoxon Test: Myth, Misconception and Misuse in IR Research.

@inproceedings{urbano-2026-stop, author = {Juli\'{a}n Urbano and Konstantin Yakovlev}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Stop Using the Wilcoxon Test: Myth, Misconception and Misuse in IR Research}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {2758--2768}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808540}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808540} }