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Test whether the means or medians from two or more populations are all equivalent:
Create a HypothesisTestData object for repeated property extraction:
The complete block test can be used to test for mean differences with complete block design:
There is a significant difference among the means at the 0.05 level:
Use the Friedman rank test to test for differences in medians with complete block design:
It appears that at least one median differs significantly from the others:
Scope (9) Testing (5)Perform a particular test for equal locations:
Any number of tests can be performed simultaneously:
Perform all tests appropriate to the data simultaneously:
Use the property "AllTests" to identify which tests were used:
Create a HypothesisTestData object for repeated property extraction:
The properties available for extraction:
Extract some properties from a HypothesisTestData object:
The -value and test statistic from a -sample -test:
Extract any number of properties simultaneously:
The -value and test statistic from a Kruskal–Wallis test:
Reporting (4)Tabulate the results from a selection of tests:
A full table of all appropriate test results:
A table of selected test results:
Retrieve the entries from a test table for customized reporting:
The -values are above 0.05, so there is not enough evidence to reject at that level:
Tabulate -values for a test or group of tests:
A table of -values from all appropriate tests:
A table of -values from a subset of tests:
Report the test statistic from a test or group of tests:
The test statistic from the table:
A table of test statistics from all appropriate tests:
Options (8) Method (2)Compute the Kruskal–Wallis test for a group of datasets:
The rescaled test statistic follows an FRatioDistribution:
Use the asymptotic chi-square approximation:
Use the asymptotic chi-square distribution for the Friedman rank test:
By default, Conover's -distribution approximation is used:
SignificanceLevel (3)Set the significance level for diagnostic tests:
Setting the significance level may alter which test is automatically chosen:
A median-based test would have been chosen by default:
The significance level is also used for "TestConclusion" and "ShortTestConclusion":
VerifyTestAssumptions (3)Diagnostics can be controlled as a group using All or None:
Diagnostics can be controlled independently:
Assume normality but check for symmetry:
Test assumption values can be explicitly set:
The Kruskal-Wallis test was previously chosen because the data is not normally distributed:
Applications (4)Test whether a group of populations shares a common location:
The first group of datasets was drawn from populations with very different locations:
Populations represented by the second group all have similar locations:
Morphological measures of two crab varieties were taken for each of the two sexes. Determine whether the measures differ across the various groups:
The rear width is the only measure that differs by gender when variety is ignored:
All measures are significantly different when gender and variety are considered simultaneously:
A pilot study was conducted for 75 patients with type II diabetes who had failed to achieve target weight loss with a particular medication. The patients were randomly assigned to three groups: a control group continuing the original medication, and two treatment groups that received 50 and 100 mg of a new medication, respectively. Weight loss in pounds over a 12-week period was recorded:
There is a significant difference in the means of the groups:
Using a Bonferroni correction in a test of each pairwise difference shows that both treatment levels perform better than the control, but that they are not significantly different from one another:
A group of six food critics rated four restaurants for quality on a 100-point scale. Determine whether there is a significant difference in the quality of the restaurants according to critics:
Bar charts of the median score by critic:
Bar charts of the median score for each restaurant:
Accounting for the blocked structure, a significant difference in quality can be detected:
Properties & Relations (12)The -value returned by a -sample -test is equivalent to that of TTest for two samples:
The Kruskal–Wallis test is a -sample extension of the two-sample Mann–Whitney test:
The Mann–Whitney -value is corrected for continuity and ties:
Under the -sample -test statistic follows an FRatioDistribution[g-1,n-g], where g is the number of datasets and n is the total number of observations:
Under the complete block and Friedman rank test statistics with t treatments and g blocks follows an FRatioDistribution[t-1,(g-1)(t-1)]:
The Friedman statistic can be transformed to follow a ChiSquareDistribution[g-1]:
Compute a -value using ChiSquareDistribution:
This transformation is done automatically with Method set to "Asymptotic":
Under the Kruskal–Wallis test statistic asymptotically follows a ChiSquareDistribution[g-1] where g is the number of datasets:
By default, the test statistic is rescaled to follow an FRatioDistribution[g-1,n-g]:
Conceptually, a comparison is made between the pooled and average individual variances:
Larger pooled variances indicate different means:
The ratio of pooled to individual variances:
LocationEquivalenceTest effectively detects how far this ratio is from 1:
The and test statistics are used in LocationEquivalenceTest:
The Kruskal–Wallis statistic is rank-based:
For -sample and Kruskal–Wallis tests, the statistic can be computed using LinearModelFit:
The Kruskal–Wallis test is identical but uses ranks:
Use LocationTest for two datasets:
LocationTest can also test more complicated hypotheses:
The location equivalence test ignores the time stamps when the input is a TimeSeries:
The location equivalence test recognizes the path structure of a TemporalData:
Possible Issues (3)All of the tests require that the data has equal variances:
The -sample -test and complete block test require that the data is normally distributed:
The Kruskal–Wallis test or Friedman rank test should be used if the data is not normally distributed:
The Friedman rank and complete block tests require equal sample sizes:
Neat Examples (1)Compute the statistic when the null hypothesis is true:
The test statistic given a particular alternative:
Compare the distributions of the test statistics:
Wolfram Research (2010), LocationEquivalenceTest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LocationEquivalenceTest.html. TextWolfram Research (2010), LocationEquivalenceTest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LocationEquivalenceTest.html.
CMSWolfram Language. 2010. "LocationEquivalenceTest." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LocationEquivalenceTest.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2010). LocationEquivalenceTest. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LocationEquivalenceTest.html
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