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Description:

def posthoc_mannwhitney(a, val_col=None, group_col=None, use_continuity=True, alternative='two-sided', p_adjust=None, sort=True):

    '''Pairwise comparisons with Mann-Whitney rank test.

    Parameters
    ----------
    a : array_like or pandas DataFrame object
        An array, any object exposing the array interface or a pandas
        DataFrame. Array must be two-dimensional.

    val_col : str, optional
        Name of a DataFrame column that contains dependent variable values (test
        or response variable). Values should have a non-nominal scale. Must be
        specified if `a` is a pandas DataFrame object.

    group_col : str, optional
        Name of a DataFrame column that contains independent variable values
        (grouping or predictor variable). Values should have a nominal scale
        (categorical). Must be specified if `a` is a pandas DataFrame object.

    use_continuity : bool, optional
        Whether a continuity correction (1/2.) should be taken into account.
        Default is True.

    alternative : ['two-sided', 'less', or 'greater'], optional
        Whether to get the p-value for the one-sided hypothesis
        ('less' or 'greater') or for the two-sided hypothesis ('two-sided').
        Defaults to 'two-sided'.

    p_adjust : str, optional
        Method for adjusting p values.
        See statsmodels.sandbox.stats.multicomp for details.
        Available methods are:
        'bonferroni' : one-step correction
        'sidak' : one-step correction
        'holm-sidak' : step-down method using Sidak adjustments
        'holm' : step-down method using Bonferroni adjustments
        'simes-hochberg' : step-up method  (independent)
        'hommel' : closed method based on Simes tests (non-negative)
        'fdr_bh' : Benjamini/Hochberg  (non-negative)
        'fdr_by' : Benjamini/Yekutieli (negative)
        'fdr_tsbh' : two stage fdr correction (non-negative)
        'fdr_tsbky' : two stage fdr correction (non-negative)

    sort : bool, optional
        Specifies whether to sort DataFrame by group_col or not. Recommended
        unless you sort your data manually.

    Returns
    -------
    result : pandas DataFrame
        P values.

    Notes
    -----
    Refer to `scipy.stats.mannwhitneyu` reference page for further details.

    Examples
    --------
    >>> x = [[1,2,3,4,5], [35,31,75,40,21], [10,6,9,6,1]]
    >>> sp.posthoc_mannwhitney(x, p_adjust = 'holm')

    '''

    x, _val_col, _group_col = __convert_to_df(a, val_col, group_col)

    if not sort:
        x[_group_col] = Categorical(x[_group_col], categories=x[_group_col].unique(), ordered=True)

    x.sort_values(by=[_group_col, _val_col], ascending=True, inplace=True)

    groups = np.unique(x[_group_col])
    x_len = groups.size
    vs = np.zeros((x_len, x_len))
    tri_upper = np.triu_indices(vs.shape[0], 1)
    tri_lower = np.tril_indices(vs.shape[0], -1)
    vs[:,:] = 0

    combs = it.combinations(range(x_len), 2)

    for i,j in combs:
        vs[i, j] = ss.mannwhitneyu(x.loc[x[_group_col] == groups[i], _val_col],
                                    x.loc[x[_group_col] == groups[j], _val_col],
                                    use_continuity=use_continuity,
                                    alternative=alternative)[1]

    if p_adjust:
        vs[tri_upper] = multipletests(vs[tri_upper], method = p_adjust)[1]

    vs[tri_lower] = vs.T[tri_lower]
    np.fill_diagonal(vs, -1)
    return DataFrame(vs, index=groups, columns=groups)