is_significant {lazyWeave}

Test the significance of a p-value

Description

Test if a p-value is significant. This is specifically designed to handle numeric output, or output from pvalString

Usage

is_significant(pvalue, alpha = 0.05)

Arguments

pvalue

The p-value to be tested

alpha

The significance level for comparison

Details

In instances where pvalue has a leading '<' or '>', the inequality is stripped and the remaining characters are coerced to a numeric. A logical vector comparing pvalue to alpha is returned where the value is TRUE if pvalue <= alpha

This function was built with the intent of using it to identify rows in descriptive tables (such as cattable and conttable) with significant results. These rows could then be highlighted using bold print automatically. This might prove useful for large tables.

Author(s)

Benjamin Nutter

Examples

## Not run: 
is_significant(c(.10, .06, .051, .05, .049, .02, .01))
is_significant(c("> .10", "< .05", "< 0.001"), alpha=.01)

## End(Not run)