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WoolfTest: Woolf Test

Description

Test for homogeneity on $2 \times 2 \times k$ tables over strata (i.e., whether the log odds ratios are the same in all strata).

Usage

WoolfTest(x)

Arguments

x

a $2 \times 2 \times k$ table.

Value

• A list of class "htest" containing the following components:
• statistic
  the chi-squared test statistic.
• parameter
  degrees of freedom of the approximate chi-squared distribution of the test statistic.
• p.value
  $p$-value for the test.
• method
  a character string indicating the type of test performed.
• data.name
  a character string giving the name(s) of the data.
• observed
  the observed counts.
• expected
  the expected counts under the null hypothesis.

References

Woolf, B. 1955: On estimating the relation between blood group and disease. Ann. Human Genet. (London) 19, 251-253.

See Also

mantelhaen.test, BreslowDayTest

Examples

migraine <- xtabs(freq ~ ., 
            cbind(expand.grid(treatment=c("active","placebo"), 
                               response=c("better","same"), 
                               gender=c("female","male")),
                  freq=c(16,5,11,20,12,7,16,19))
            )

WoolfTest(migraine)

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