gamesHowellTest {PMCMRplus}R Documentation

Games-Howell Test

Description

Performs Games-Howell all-pairs comparison test for normally distributed data with unequal group variances.

Usage

gamesHowellTest(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
gamesHowellTest(x, g, ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula'
gamesHowellTest(formula, data, subset, na.action, ...)

## S3 method for class 'aov'
gamesHowellTest(x, ...)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector of data values, a list of numeric data vectors or a fitted model object, usually an aov fit.

...

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.

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

For all-pairs comparisons in an one-factorial layout with normally distributed residuals but unequal between-groups variances the Games-Howell Test can be performed. A total of m = k(k-1)/2 hypotheses can be tested. The null hypothesis H_{ij}: μ_i(x) = μ_j(x) is tested in the two-tailed test against the alternative A_{ij}: μ_i(x) \ne μ_j(x), ~~ i \ne j.

The p-values are computed from the studentized range 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.

See Also

ptukey

Examples

fit <- aov(weight ~ feed, chickwts)
shapiro.test(residuals(fit))
bartlett.test(weight ~ feed, chickwts) # var1 = varN
anova(fit)

## also works with fitted objects of class aov
res <- gamesHowellTest(fit)
summary(res)
summaryGroup(res)

[Package PMCMRplus version 1.6.1 Index]