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likelihood.test: Likelihood Ratio (G test) for contingency tables

Description

Performs a likelihood ratio test of independence

Usage

likelihood.test(x,y=NULL,conservative=FALSE)

Arguments

x
A vector or a matrix
y
A vector that is ignored if x is a matrix and required if x is a vector
conservative
If TRUE, the Williams' continuity correction is used

Value

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:
statistic
the value the chi-squared test statistic.
parameter
the degrees of freedom of the approximate chi-squared distribution of the test statistic.
p.value
the p-value for the test.
method
a character string indicating the type of test performed, and whether the continuity correction was used.
data.name
a character string giving the name(s) of the data.

See Also

chisq.test

Examples

Run this code
data(InsectSprays)
likelihood.test(InsectSprays$count>7,InsectSprays$spray)

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