pottwhitt.stat: Compute Potthoff-Whittinghill's Statistic

In DCluster: Functions for the Detection of Spatial Clusters of Diseases

Description

Compute Pottwhoff-Whittinghill's statistic.

pottwhitt.stat computes the test statistic and the test using a hi-square distribution whilst pottwhitt.test performs a bootstrap test.

Usage

pottwhitt.stat(data)
pottwhitt.test(formula, data, model, R, ...)

Arguments

formula	Formula that specifies the underlying model. The observed cases are the response and the expected number of cases must be specified as an offset in the log scale (see example below). Note that now it is not necessary to use Observed and Expected and that any other names can be used to specify the observed and expected cases.
model	Parametric model to be used in the bootstrap test. One of "param", "multinom", "poisson" or "negbin". See the DCluster manpage for details.
...	The remaining arguments in 'achisq.stat' not included in 'achisq.test'. This is done so because achisq.test calls achisq.stat in order to perform the test.
R	Number of replicates used in the test to compute the significance of the observed value of the test statistic.
data	A dataframe containing the data, as specified in the DCluster manpage.

Value

A list with the following elements:

T	The value of the statistic.
asintmean	Mean of the asymptotical Normal distribution.
asintvar	Variance of the asymptotical Normal distribution.
pvalue	Significance of the statistic.

References

Potthoff, R. F. and Whittinghill, M.(1966). Testing for Homogeneity: I. The Binomial and Multinomial Distributions. Biometrika 53, 167-182.

Potthoff, R. F. and Whittinghill, M.(1966). Testing for Homogeneity: The Poisson Distribution. Biometrika 53, 183-190.

See Also

DCluster

Examples

library(spdep)

data(nc.sids)

sids<-data.frame(Observed=nc.sids$SID74)
sids<-cbind(sids, Expected=nc.sids$BIR74*sum(nc.sids$SID74)/sum(nc.sids$BIR74))
sids<-cbind(sids, x=nc.sids$x, y=nc.sids$y)

pottwhitt.stat(sids)

pottwhitt.test(Observed~offset(log(Expected)),sids, model="poisson", R=99)

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