wald.ptheo.test: Wald test for comparison of a proportion to a theoretical...

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Wald test for comparison of a proportion to a theoretical value

Description

Performs a Wald test for comparison of a proportion to a theoretical value.

Usage

wald.ptheo.test(y, blocks = NULL, p = 0.5)

Arguments

y	either a binary response (numeric vector or factor, with only two possible values except NA) or a two-column matrix with the columns giving the numbers of successes (left) and failures (right).
blocks	optional blocking (random) factor.
p	hypothesized probability of success.

Details

The function builds a logistic (mixed) regression and applies a Wald test to compare the estimated value of the intercept to its theoretical value under H0. Eventual overdispersion is taken into account, by using a quasi-binomial law in case of no blocks or by introducing an individual-level random factor if blocks are present.

If the response is a 0/1 vector, the probability of the '1' group is tested. With other vectors, the response is transformed into a factor and the probability of the second level is tested.

If the response is a two-column matrix, the probability of the left column is tested.

If the reponse is a vector and no blocking factor is present, the exact binomial test performed by binom.test should be preferred since it is an exact test, whereas the Wald test is an approximate test.

Value

method	name of the test.
data.name	a character string giving the name(s) of the data.
statistic	test statistics of the test.
p.value	p-value of the test.
estimate	the estimated proportion (calculated without taking into account the blocking factor, if present).
alternative	a character string describing the alternative hypothesis, always "two.sided".
null.value	the value of the proportion under the null hypothesis.
parameter	the degrees of freedom for the t-statistic, only whith overdispersion and no blocks.

Author(s)

Maxime HERVE <[e-mail]>

See Also

binom.test, glm, glmer

Examples

set.seed(2006)
response <- sample(0:1,60,replace=TRUE)

# Comparison to p=0.5
wald.ptheo.test(response)

# Comparison to p=0.8
wald.ptheo.test(response,p=0.8)

# With a blocking factor

require(lme4)
blocks <- gl(3,20)
wald.ptheo.test(response,blocks)

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