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Mood Two-Sample Test of Scale

Performs Mood's two-sample test for a difference in scale parameters.

Keywords
htest
Usage
mood.test(x, …)# S3 method for default
mood.test(x, y,
alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"), …)# S3 method for formula
mood.test(formula, data, subset, na.action, …)
Arguments
x, y

numeric vectors of data values.

alternative

indicates the alternative hypothesis and must be one of "two.sided" (default), "greater" or "less" all of which can be abbreviated.

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

The underlying model is that the two samples are drawn from $f(x-l)$ and $f((x-l)/s)/s$, respectively, where $l$ is a common location parameter and $s$ is a scale parameter.

The null hypothesis is $s = 1$.

There are more useful tests for this problem.

In the case of ties, the formulation of Mielke (1967) is employed.

Value

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

statistic

the value of the test statistic.

p.value

the p-value of the test.

alternative

a character string describing the alternative hypothesis. You can specify just the initial letter.

method

the character string "Mood two-sample test of scale".

data.name

a character string giving the names of the data.

References

William J. Conover (1971), Practical nonparametric statistics. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pages 234f.

Paul W. Mielke, Jr. (1967). Note on some squared rank tests with existing ties. Technometrics, 9/2, 312--314. 10.2307/1266427.

fligner.test for a rank-based (nonparametric) k-sample test for homogeneity of variances; ansari.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.

Aliases
• mood.test
• mood.test.default
• mood.test.formula
Examples
library(stats) # NOT RUN { ## Same data as for the Ansari-Bradley test: ## 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) mood.test(ramsay, jung.parekh) ## Compare this to ansari.test(ramsay, jung.parekh) # } 
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