PMCMR (version 4.3)

durbin.test: Durbin test

Description

The omnibus test according to Durbin tests whether k groups (or treatments) in a two-way balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) have identical effects.

Usage

durbin.test(y, …)
# S3 method for default
durbin.test (y, groups, blocks,
…)
# S3 method for formula
durbin.test (formula, data, subset,
na.action, …)

Arguments

y

either a numeric vector of data values, or a data matrix.

groups

a vector giving the group for the corresponding elements of y if this is a vector; ignored if y is a matrix. If not a factor object, it is coerced to one.

blocks

a vector giving the block for the corresponding elements of y if this is a vector; ignored if y is a matrix. If not a factor object, it is coerced to one.

formula

a formula of the form a ~ b | c, where a, b and c give the data values and corresponding groups and blocks, respectively.

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").

…

further arguments to be passed to or from methods.

Value

A list with class "PMCMR":

method

The applied method.

data.name

The name of the data.

p.value

The p-value according to the studentized range distribution.

statistic

The estimated upper quantile of the studentized range distribution.

p.adjust.method

Defaults to "none"

Details

The friedman.test can be used to test k groups (treatments) for identical effects in a two-way balanced complete block design. In the case of an two-way balanced incomplete block design, the Durbin test can be employed. The H0 is rejected, if at least one group (treatment) is significantly different. The Durbin test is equivalent to the Friedman test in the case of a two-way balanced complete block design.

If y is a matrix, than the columns refer to the groups (treatment) and the rows indicate the block.

See vignette("PMCMR") for details.

References

W. J. Conover (1999), Practical nonparametric Statistics, 3rd. Edition, Wiley.

N. A. Heckert and J. J. Filliben (2003). NIST Handbook 148: Dataplot Reference Manual, Volume 2: Let Subcommands and Library Functions. National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook Series, June 2003.

See Also

friedman.test, posthoc.durbin.test

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Example for an incomplete block design:
## Data from Conover (1999, p. 391).
y <- matrix(c(
2,NA,NA,NA,3, NA,  3,  3,  3, NA, NA, NA,  3, NA, NA,
  1,  2, NA, NA, NA,  1,  1, NA,  1,  1,
NA, NA, NA, NA,  2, NA,  2,  1, NA, NA, NA, NA,
  3, NA,  2,  1, NA, NA, NA, NA,  3, NA,  2,  2
), ncol=7, nrow=7, byrow=FALSE,
dimnames=list(1:7, LETTERS[1:7]))
y
durbin.test(y)


## Example for a complete block design:
## Sachs, 1997, p. 675
## Six persons (block) received six different diuretics (A to F, treatment).
## The responses are the Na-concentration (mval)
## in the urine measured 2 hours after each treatment.
##
y <- matrix(c(
3.88, 5.64, 5.76, 4.25, 5.91, 4.33, 30.58, 30.14, 16.92,
23.19, 26.74, 10.91, 25.24, 33.52, 25.45, 18.85, 20.45, 
26.67, 4.44, 7.94, 4.04, 4.4, 4.23, 4.36, 29.41, 30.72,
32.92, 28.23, 23.35, 12, 38.87, 33.12, 39.15, 28.06, 38.23,
26.65),nrow=6, ncol=6, 
dimnames=list(1:6,LETTERS[1:6]))
print(y)
friedman.test(y)
durbin.test(y)
# }