fligner_test: Fligner-Killeen Test

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Fligner-Killeen Test

Description

Provides a pipe-friendly framework to perform the Fligner-Killeen test, a non-parametric (rank-based) test of the homogeneity of group variances. It is robust against departures from normality and is a useful alternative to levene_test(). Wrapper around the function fligner.test().

See the Datanovia tutorial Homogeneity of Variance Test in R for a worked walkthrough.

Usage

fligner_test(data, formula, ...)

Arguments

data	a data.frame containing the variables in the formula.
formula	a formula of the form x ~ group where x is a numeric variable giving the data values and group is a factor with one or multiple levels giving the corresponding groups. For example, formula = TP53 ~ cancer_group.
...	other arguments to be passed to the function fligner.test.

Value

return a data frame with the following columns:

• .y.: the y variable used in the test.

• n: sample count.

• statistic: the Fligner-Killeen test statistic (a chi-squared statistic) used to compute the p-value.

• df: the degrees of freedom.

• p: p-value.

• method: the statistical test used to compare groups.

See Also

levene_test The Datanovia tutorial: Homogeneity of Variance Test in R.

Examples

# Load data
#:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
data("ToothGrowth")
df <- ToothGrowth

# Fligner-Killeen test
#:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
df %>% fligner_test(len ~ dose)

# Grouped data
df %>%
  group_by(supp) %>%
  fligner_test(len ~ dose)

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