“…Among these are the permutation-based nonparametric combination methods discussed, for example, in Pesarin and Salmaso (2010) or Pesarin and Salmaso (2012) (see also Anderson, 2001), and the fully nonparametric rank-based tests presented in , Bathke, Harrar, and Madden (2008), Harrar and Bathke (2008a, b), and Liu, Bathke, and Harrar (2011), and implemented in the R package npmv (Burchett & Ellis, 2015;Ellis, Burchett, Harrar, & Bathke, 2017). However, these methods are currently limited to the one-way layout, or to some particular factorial design situations (Hahn & Salmaso, 2015, Bathke & Harrar, 2016. Thus, they are not applicable to data from complex factorial designs, such as the AD data described in detail below.…”