# ansari.test

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Performs the Ansari-Bradley two-sample test for a difference in scale parameters.

Keywords
htest
##### Usage
ansari.test(x, …)

# S3 method for default ansari.test(x, y, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"), exact = NULL, conf.int = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95, …)

# S3 method for formula ansari.test(formula, data, subset, na.action, …)

##### Arguments
x

numeric vector of data values.

y

numeric vector of data values.

alternative

indicates the alternative hypothesis and must be one of "two.sided", "greater" or "less". You can specify just the initial letter.

exact

a logical indicating whether an exact p-value should be computed.

conf.int

a logical,indicating whether a confidence interval should be computed.

conf.level

confidence level of the interval.

formula

a formula of the form lhs ~ rhs where lhs is a numeric variable giving the data values and rhs a factor with two levels giving 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").

further arguments to be passed to or from methods.

##### Details

Suppose that x and y are independent samples from distributions with densities $f((t-m)/s)/s$ and $f(t-m)$, respectively, where $m$ is an unknown nuisance parameter and $s$, the ratio of scales, is the parameter of interest. The Ansari-Bradley test is used for testing the null that $s$ equals 1, the two-sided alternative being that $s \ne 1$ (the distributions differ only in variance), and the one-sided alternatives being $s > 1$ (the distribution underlying x has a larger variance, "greater") or $s < 1$ ("less").

By default (if exact is not specified), an exact p-value is computed if both samples contain less than 50 finite values and there are no ties. Otherwise, a normal approximation is used.

Optionally, a nonparametric confidence interval and an estimator for $s$ are computed. If exact p-values are available, an exact confidence interval is obtained by the algorithm described in Bauer (1972), and the Hodges-Lehmann estimator is employed. Otherwise, the returned confidence interval and point estimate are based on normal approximations.

Note that mid-ranks are used in the case of ties rather than average scores as employed in Hollander & Wolfe (1973). See, e.g., Hajek, Sidak and Sen (1999), pages 131ff, for more information.

##### Value

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:

statistic

the value of the Ansari-Bradley test statistic.

p.value

the p-value of the test.

null.value

the ratio of scales $s$ under the null, 1.

alternative

a character string describing the alternative hypothesis.

method

data.name

a character string giving the names of the data.

conf.int

a confidence interval for the scale parameter. (Only present if argument conf.int = TRUE.)

estimate

an estimate of the ratio of scales. (Only present if argument conf.int = TRUE.)

##### Note

To compare results of the Ansari-Bradley test to those of the F test to compare two variances (under the assumption of normality), observe that $s$ is the ratio of scales and hence $s^2$ is the ratio of variances (provided they exist), whereas for the F test the ratio of variances itself is the parameter of interest. In particular, confidence intervals are for $s$ in the Ansari-Bradley test but for $s^2$ in the F test.

##### References

David F. Bauer (1972). Constructing confidence sets using rank statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 67, 687--690. 10.1080/01621459.1972.10481279.

Jaroslav Hajek, Zbynek Sidak and Pranab K. Sen (1999). Theory of Rank Tests. San Diego, London: Academic Press.

Myles Hollander and Douglas A. Wolfe (1973). Nonparametric Statistical Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pages 83--92.

fligner.test for a rank-based (nonparametric) $k$-sample test for homogeneity of variances; mood.test for another rank-based two-sample test for a difference in scale parameters; var.test and bartlett.test for parametric tests for the homogeneity in variance.

ansari_test in package coin for exact and approximate conditional p-values for the Ansari-Bradley test, as well as different methods for handling ties.

##### Aliases
• ansari.test
• ansari.test.default
• ansari.test.formula
##### Examples
library(stats) # NOT RUN { ## Hollander & Wolfe (1973, p. 86f): ## Serum iron determination using Hyland control sera ramsay <- c(111, 107, 100, 99, 102, 106, 109, 108, 104, 99, 101, 96, 97, 102, 107, 113, 116, 113, 110, 98) jung.parekh <- c(107, 108, 106, 98, 105, 103, 110, 105, 104, 100, 96, 108, 103, 104, 114, 114, 113, 108, 106, 99) ansari.test(ramsay, jung.parekh) ansari.test(rnorm(10), rnorm(10, 0, 2), conf.int = TRUE) ## try more points - failed in 2.4.1 ansari.test(rnorm(100), rnorm(100, 0, 2), conf.int = TRUE) # }
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