nestedRanksTest (version 0.2)

nestedRanksTest-package: Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon ranks test when data are in groups.

Description

Calculate a Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test for a difference between treatment levels using nested ranks. This test can be used when observations are structured into several groups and each group has received both treatment levels. The p-value is determined via bootstrapping. This test is intended to be analogous to a mixed-model extension of the wilcox.test, for which treatment is a fixed effect and group membership is a random effect.

Details

The main function is nestedRanksTest, which includes a formula interface implementing the familiar "|" syntax for specifying group membership on the right-hand side of the formula. The value returned is a list of class 'htest_boot', which extends class 'htest'. print and plot methods are provided to print and visualise results.

These statistical tools were developed in collaboration with Peter E. Smouse (Rutgers University) and Victoria L. Sork (UCLA) and were funded in part by U.S. National Science Foundation awards NSF-DEB-0514956 and NSF-DEB-0516529.

References

Thompson, P. G., Smouse, P. E., Scofield, D. G. and Sork, V. L. (2014) What seeds tell us about birds: a multi-year analysis of acorn woodpecker foraging movements. Movement Ecology 2:12. http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/2/1/12

https://github.com/douglasgscofield/nestedRanksTest