Exact and Monte Carlo resampling FORTRAN programs are described for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank-sum test and the Kruskal-Wallis oneway analysis of variance for ranks test. The program algorithms compensate for tied values and do not depend on asymptotic approximations for probability values, unlike most algorithms contained in PC-based statistical software packages.
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