one_sample_test: One-sample tests

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One-sample tests

Description

Parametric, non-parametric, robust, and Bayesian one-sample tests.

Usage

one_sample_test(
  data,
  x,
  type = "parametric",
  test.value = 0,
  alternative = "two.sided",
  digits = 2L,
  conf.level = 0.95,
  tr = 0.2,
  bf.prior = 0.707,
  effsize.type = "g",
  exact = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	A data frame (or a tibble) from which variables specified are to be taken. Other data types (e.g., matrix, table, array, etc.) will not be accepted. Additionally, grouped data frames from {dplyr} should be ungrouped before they are entered as data.
x	A numeric variable from the data frame data.
type	A character specifying the type of statistical approach: "parametric" "nonparametric" "robust" "bayes" You can specify just the initial letter (e.g. "np" or "bf"). Matching is on the initial lowercase letter only, so any other value (including capitalized values such as "Bayes") falls back to "parametric" without a warning.
test.value	A number indicating the true value of the mean (Default: 0).
alternative	a character string specifying the alternative hypothesis, must be one of "two.sided" (default), "greater" or "less". You can specify just the initial letter.
digits	Number of digits for rounding or significant figures. May also be "signif" to return significant figures or "scientific" to return scientific notation. Control the number of digits by adding the value as suffix, e.g. digits = "scientific4" to have scientific notation with 4 decimal places, or digits = "signif5" for 5 significant figures (see also signif()).
conf.level	Scalar between 0 and 1 (default: ⁠95%⁠ confidence/credible intervals, 0.95).
tr	Trim level for the mean when carrying out robust tests. In case of an error, try reducing the value of tr, which is by default set to 0.2. Lowering the value might help.
bf.prior	A number between 0.5 and 2 (default 0.707), the prior width to use in calculating Bayes factors and posterior estimates. In addition to numeric arguments, several named values are also recognized: "medium", "wide", and "ultrawide", corresponding to r scale values of 1/2, sqrt(2)/2, and 1, respectively. In case of an ANOVA, this value corresponds to scale for fixed effects.
effsize.type	Type of effect size needed for parametric tests. The argument can be "d" (for Cohen's d) or "g" (for Hedge's g).
exact	A logical indicating whether you want exact p-values to be computed. Relevant only when type = "nonparametric" (Default: FALSE).
...	Currently ignored.

Value

The returned object is a tibble data frame with the additional class "statsExpressions". The exact set of columns depends on the test and, for functions that accept a type argument, on the chosen analysis (parametric, non-parametric, robust, or Bayesian). Any given call therefore returns some (not all) of the columns below.

Hypothesis testing

• statistic: the numeric value of a statistic

• df: the numeric value of a parameter being modeled (often degrees of freedom for the test)

• df.error and df: relevant only if the statistic in question has two degrees of freedom (e.g. anova)

• p.value: the p-value associated with the observed statistic (two-sided unless a one-sided alternative is requested, where supported)

• method: the name of the inferential statistical test

Effect size estimation

• effectsize: the name of the effect size

• estimate: estimated value of the effect size

• conf.level: the coverage level of the confidence/credible interval (e.g. 0.95); the interval itself spans conf.low to conf.high

• conf.low: lower bound for the effect size estimate

• conf.high: upper bound for the effect size estimate

• conf.method: method used to compute the confidence/credible interval

• conf.distribution: statistical distribution for the effect

Bayesian analysis (only when type = "bayes")

• bf10: Bayes factor for the alternative hypothesis relative to the null

• log_e_bf10: natural logarithm of the Bayes factor (present for most, but not all, Bayesian analyses)

• prior.distribution, prior.scale, prior.location: prior specification used to compute the Bayes factor and posterior estimates

Pairwise comparisons (for pairwise_comparisons() and pairwise_contingency_table())

• group1, group2: the two levels being compared

• p.adjust.method: the adjustment method used for multiple comparisons

• p.value.adj: the adjusted p-value; returned by pairwise_contingency_table(). Note that pairwise_comparisons() instead folds the adjusted value into p.value (and does not return a separate p.value.adj column)

Common columns

• n.obs: number of observations

• expression: a list-column of pre-formatted plotmath expressions; each element is a language object (not a character string) containing the statistical details, ready to be used in {ggplot2} (e.g. in labs() or annotate())

For a per-function, column-by-column breakdown of the output (and an explanation of the internal add_expression_col() engine that builds the expression column), see the Return value schema article. For more examples, see the data frame output vignette.

One-sample tests

The table below provides summary about:

• statistical test carried out for inferential statistics

• type of effect size estimate and a measure of uncertainty for this estimate

• functions used internally to compute these details

Hypothesis testing

Type	Test	Function used
Parametric	One-sample Student's t-test	stats::t.test()
Non-parametric	One-sample Wilcoxon test	stats::wilcox.test()
Robust	Bootstrap-t method for one-sample test	WRS2::trimcibt()
Bayesian	One-sample Student's t-test	BayesFactor::ttestBF()

Effect size estimation

Type	Effect size	CI available?	Function used
Parametric	Cohen's d, Hedge's g	Yes	effectsize::cohens_d(), effectsize::hedges_g()
Non-parametric	r (rank-biserial correlation)	Yes	effectsize::rank_biserial()
Robust	trimmed mean	Yes	WRS2::trimcibt()
Bayesian	difference	Yes	bayestestR::describe_posterior()

Citation

Patil, I., (2021). statsExpressions: R Package for Tidy Dataframes and Expressions with Statistical Details. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(61), 3236, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03236

Examples

# for reproducibility
set.seed(123)

# ----------------------- parametric -----------------------

one_sample_test(mtcars, wt, test.value = 3)

# biased (Cohen's d) effect size
one_sample_test(mtcars, wt, test.value = 3, effsize.type = "d")

# ----------------------- non-parametric -------------------

one_sample_test(mtcars, wt, test.value = 3, type = "nonparametric")

# ----------------------- robust ---------------------------

one_sample_test(mtcars, wt, test.value = 3, type = "robust")

# ----------------------- Bayesian -------------------------

one_sample_test(mtcars, wt, test.value = 3, type = "bayes")

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