var2.F: Two-Sample F-Test for Variance

In SHT: Statistical Hypothesis Testing Toolbox

Two-Sample F-Test for Variance

Description

Given two univariate samples x and y, it tests

H_0 : σ_x^2 ≤ft\lbrace =,≥q,≤q \right\rbrace σ_y^2\quad vs\quad H_1 : σ_x^2 ≤ft\lbrace \neq,<,>\right\rbrace σ_y^2

.

Usage

var2.F(x, y, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"))

Arguments

x	a length-n data vector.
y	a length-m data vector.
alternative	specifying the alternative hypothesis.

Value

a (list) object of S3 class htest containing:

statistic

a test statistic.

p.value

p-value under H_0.

alternative

alternative hypothesis.

method

name of the test.

data.name

name(s) of provided sample data.

References

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snedecor_statistical_1996SHT

Examples

## CRAN-purpose small example
x = rnorm(10)
y = rnorm(10)
var2.F(x, y, alternative="g") ## Ha : var(x) >= var(y)
var2.F(x, y, alternative="l") ## Ha : var(x) <= var(y)
var2.F(x, y, alternative="t") ## Ha : var(x) =/= var(y)


## empirical Type 1 error 
niter   = 1000
counter = rep(0,niter)  # record p-values
for (i in 1:niter){
  x = rnorm(57)  # sample x from N(0,1)
  y = rnorm(89)  # sample y from N(0,1)
  
  counter[i] = ifelse(var2.F(x,y)$p.value < 0.05, 1, 0)
}

## print the result
cat(paste("\n* Example for 'var2.F'\n","*\n",
"* number of rejections   : ", sum(counter),"\n",
"* total number of trials : ", niter,"\n",
"* empirical Type 1 error : ",round(sum(counter/niter),5),"\n",sep=""))

SHT documentation built on Nov. 3, 2022, 9:06 a.m.