chaAllPairsNashimotoTest {PMCMRplus}R Documentation

All-Pairs Comparisons for Simply Ordered Mean Ranksums

Description

Performs Nashimoto and Wright's all-pairs comparison procedure for simply ordered mean ranksums (NPY-test). According to the authors, the procedure shall only be applied after Chacko's test (see chackoTest) indicates global significance.

The modified procedure uses the property of a simple order, θ_m' - θ_m ≤ θ_j - θ_i ≤ θ_l' - θ_l \qquad (l ≤ i ≤ m~\mathrm{and}~ m' ≤ j ≤ l'). The null hypothesis H_{ij}: θ_i = θ_j is tested against the alternative A_{ij}: θ_i < θ_j for any 1 ≤ i < j ≤ k.

In the NPT test the p-values are estimated from the standard normal distribution.

Usage

chaAllPairsNashimotoTest(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
chaAllPairsNashimotoTest(x, g, p.adjust.method = c(p.adjust.methods), ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
chaAllPairsNashimotoTest(
  formula,
  data,
  subset,
  na.action,
  p.adjust.method = c(p.adjust.methods),
  ...
)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector of data values, or a list of numeric data vectors.

...

further arguments to be passed to or from methods.

g

a vector or factor object giving the group for the corresponding elements of "x". Ignored with a warning if "x" is a list.

p.adjust.method

method for adjusting p values

formula

a formula of the form response ~ group where response gives the data values and group a vector or factor of the corresponding groups.

data

an optional matrix or data frame (or similar: see model.frame) containing the variables in the formula formula. By default the variables are taken from environment(formula).

subset

an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used.

na.action

a function which indicates what should happen when the data contain NAs. Defaults to getOption("na.action").

Details

Although Nashimoto and Wright (2005) originally did not use any p-adjustment, any method as available by p.adjust.methods can be selected for the adjustment of p-values estimated from the standard normal distribution.

Value

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

method

a character string indicating what type of test was performed.

data.name

a character string giving the name(s) of the data.

statistic

lower-triangle matrix of the estimated quantiles of the pairwise test statistics.

p.value

lower-triangle matrix of the p-values for the pairwise tests.

alternative

a character string describing the alternative hypothesis.

p.adjust.method

a character string describing the method for p-value adjustment.

model

a data frame of the input data.

dist

a string that denotes the test distribution.

References

Nashimoto, K., Wright, F.T. (2007) Nonparametric Multiple-Comparison Methods for Simply Ordered Medians. Comput Stat Data Anal 51, 5068–5076.

See Also

Normal, chackoTest

Examples

## Example from Sachs (1997, p. 402)
x <- c(106, 114, 116, 127, 145,
       110, 125, 143, 148, 151,
       136, 139, 149, 160, 174)
g <- gl(3,5)
levels(g) <- c("A", "B", "C")
chackoTest(x , g)
chaAllPairsNashimotoTest(x, g, p.adjust.method = "none")

[Package PMCMRplus version 1.6.1 Index]