title: meaning V value, wilcoxen signed rank test
body: <p>I have a question about my results of the Wilcoxon signed rank test:</p>
  
  <p>My data consists of a trial with 2 groups (paired) in which a treatment was used. The results were scored in %. Groups consist of 131 people. </p>
  
  <p>When I run the test in R, I got the following result:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wilcox.test(no.treatment, with.treatment, paired=T) 
  # Wilcoxon signed rank test with continuity correction 
  # data:  no.treatment and with.treatment V = 3832, p-value = 0.7958
  # alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am wondering what the <code>V</code> value means. I read somewhere that it has something to do with the number of positive scores (?), but I am wondering if it could tell me anything about the data and interpretation?</p>