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diff scripts/statistics/tests/chisquare_test_homogeneity.m @ 3454:d8b731d3f7a3
[project @ 2000-01-18 10:13:31 by jwe]
author | jwe |
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date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:13:39 +0000 |
parents | f8dde1807dee |
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--- a/scripts/statistics/tests/chisquare_test_homogeneity.m Tue Jan 18 08:32:15 2000 +0000 +++ b/scripts/statistics/tests/chisquare_test_homogeneity.m Tue Jan 18 10:13:39 2000 +0000 @@ -14,19 +14,22 @@ ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. -## usage: [pval, chisq, df] = chisquare_test_homogeneity (x, y, c) +## -*- texinfo -*- +## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{pval}, @var{chisq}, @var{df}] =} chisquare_test_homogeneity (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{c}) +## Given two samples @var{x} and @var{y}, perform a chisquare test for +## homogeneity of the null hypothesis that @var{x} and @var{y} come from +## the same distribution, based on the partition induced by the +## (strictly increasing) entries of @var{c}. ## -## Given two samples x and y, perform a chisquare test for homogeneity -## of the null hypothesis that x and y come from the same distribution, -## based on the partition induced by the (strictly increasing) entries -## of c. +## For large samples, the test statistic @var{chisq} approximately follows a +## chisquare distribution with @var{df} = @code{length (@var{c})} +## degrees of freedom. ## -## For large samples, the test statistic chisq approximately follows a -## chisquare distribution with df = length(c) degrees pf freedom. pval -## is the p-value (1 minus the CDF of this distribution at chisq) of the -## test. +## The p-value (1 minus the CDF of this distribution at @var{chisq}) is +## returned in @var{pval}. ## ## If no output argument is given, the p-value is displayed. +## @end deftypefn ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> ## Description: Chi-square test for homogeneity