KtpTest {npordtests}

Terpstra, Chang and Magel's KTP Test

Description

KtpTest performs KTP test.

Usage

KtpTest(formula, data, alpha = 0.05, na.rm = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

formula

a formula of the form lhs ~ rhs where lhs gives the sample values and rhs the corresponding groups.

data

a data frame containing the variables in the formula formula

alpha

the level of significance to assess the statistical difference. Default is set to alpha = 0.05.

na.rm

a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

verbose

a logical for printing output to R console.

Value

A list with class "owt" containing the following components:

statistic

the KTP test statistic.

mean

the mean of the KTP test statistic.

variance

the variance of the KTP test statistic.

Z

the standardized test statistic.

p.value

the p-value of the test.

alpha

the level of significance.

method

the character string "KTP".

data

a data frame containing the variables in which NA values (if exist) are removed.

formula

a formula of the form lhs ~ rhs where lhs gives the sample values and rhs the corresponding groups.

Author(s)

Bulent Altunkaynak

References

Jonckheere, A. R. (1954). A Distribution-Free k-Sample Test Against Ordered Alternatives. Biometrika, 41, 133-145.

Terpstra, J., Chang, C.H., Magel, R.C. (2011). On the use of Spearman's correlation coefficient for testing ordered alternatives. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 81:11, 1381-1392.

Examples

library(npordtests)

## Data from Jonckheere (1954)
data(jdata)
KtpTest(Y~X,jdata)