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Test variances from two datasets for equivalence:
Create a HypothesisTestData object for further property extraction:
Compare the variances of multiple datasets simultaneously:
The variances of the datasets:
Scope (12) Testing (8)Compare the variances of two datasets:
The -values are typically large when the variances are equal:
The -values are typically small when the variances are not equal:
Using Automatic applies the generally most powerful appropriate test:
The property "AutomaticTest" can be used to determine which test was chosen:
Compare the variances of many datasets simultaneously:
Compare the distributions of the datasets visually using SmoothHistogram:
Perform a particular test for equal variance:
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 Levene test:
Extract any number of properties simultaneously:
The -value and test statistic from a Brown–Forsythe 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 normality 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 (6) SignificanceLevel (3)Set the significance level for diagnostic tests:
Setting the significance level may alter which test is automatically chosen:
A rank-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 Conover test was previously chosen because the data is not normally distributed:
Applications (2)Test whether a group of populations shares a common variance:
The first group of datasets was drawn from populations with very different variances:
Populations represented by the second group all have similar variances:
LocationEquivalenceTest can be used to compare the means of several datasets simultaneously but requires that the datasets have common variance:
Use VarianceEquivalenceTest to determine if the variances are equivalent:
LocationEquivalenceTest can be used to compare the means:
Properties & Relations (5)The Brown–Forsythe and Levene tests are equivalent but use different standardizing functions:
The Levene test uses Mean to standardize the data:
The Brown–Forsythe test typically uses Median:
For heavy-tailed data, the 10% TrimmedMean is used instead:
For datasets and total observations, the Brown–Forsythe and Levene test statistics both follow FRatioDistribution[k-1,n-k] under :
Under , the test statistic follows ChiSquareDistribution[k-1]:
The variance equivalence test ignores the time stamps when the input is a TimeSeries:
The variance equivalence test recognizes the path structure of a TemporalData:
Possible Issues (2)The Fisher ratio test requires two datasets:
Use any of the other tests instead:
Conover's test is the only test that does not assume the data is normally distributed:
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), VarianceEquivalenceTest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VarianceEquivalenceTest.html. TextWolfram Research (2010), VarianceEquivalenceTest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VarianceEquivalenceTest.html.
CMSWolfram Language. 2010. "VarianceEquivalenceTest." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VarianceEquivalenceTest.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2010). VarianceEquivalenceTest. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/VarianceEquivalenceTest.html
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