In a multi-group experimental design where interest is in a univariate response, the nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test [Kniskal and Wallis (1952)] provides a potentially more powerful alternative to the parametric one-way analysis of variance when the assumptions of normality are in question. For multivariate response, Puri and Sen (1966) proposed a generalization of the KmskalWallis test that ...