MC.test {asbio} | R Documentation |
MC.test2
calculates a permutation of test statistics from an pooled variance t-test. It compares this distribution to an initial test statistic calculated using non-permuted data to derive a p-value.
MC.test(Y,X, perm = 1000, alternative = c("less", "greater", "not.equal"))
Y |
Response data. |
X |
Categorical explanatory variable. |
perm |
Number of iterations. |
alternative |
Alternative hypothesis. One of three options: "less","greater" , or "not.equal" . These provide lower-tail, upper-tail, and two-tailed tests.
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The method follows the description of Manly (1998) for a two-sample test. The pooled variance t-test procedure assumes homoscedasticity for the populations being compared. Upper and lower tailed tests are performed by finding the portion of the distribution greater than or equal to the observed test statistic (upper-tailed) or less than or equal to the observed test statistic (lower-tailed). A two tailed test is performed by multiplying the portion of the null distribution above the absolute value of the observed test statistic by two. Results from the test will be similar to oneway_test
from the library coin
since it is based on an equivalent test statistic. The function oneway_test
allows additional options including blocking.
Returns a list with the following items:
observed.test.statistic |
t-statistic calculated from non-permuted (original)data. |
no_of_permutations_exceeding_observed_value |
The number of times a Monte Carlo derived test statistic was more extreme than the initial observed test statistic. |
p.value |
Empirical p-value |
alternative |
The alternative hypothesis |
Ken Aho
Manly, B. F. J. (1997) Randomization and Monte Carlo methods in biology, 2nd edition. Chapman and Hall, London.
Y<-c(runif(100,1,3),runif(100,1.2,3.2)) X<-factor(c(rep(1,100),rep(2,100))) MC.test(Y,X,alternative="less")