preemption.t: Preemption t test

In MLpreemption: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Niche Preemption Model

Description

Function preemption.t implements a t test for comparing the preemption parameters of the geometric series for two samples.

Usage

preemption.t(x1, x2, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

x1	Species counts for the first sample
x2	Species counts for the second sample
verbose	The function is silent if verbose=FALSE or prints results if verbose=TRUE

Value

Tstat	The t statistic
df	The degrees of freedom
pval	The p-value of the test

Author(s)

Jan Graffelman ([e-mail])

References

Graffelman, J. (2021) Maximum likelihood estimation of the geometric niche preemption model

See Also

preemption.fit

Examples

data(Mehrabi)
x <- sort(Mehrabi[,1],decreasing=TRUE)
y <- sort(Mehrabi[,2],decreasing=TRUE)
results <- preemption.t(x,y)

MLpreemption documentation built on Feb. 11, 2021, 5:07 p.m.