Questions tagged [exact-test]
Statistical tests where the sampling distribution is necessarily exactly correct & not an approximation based on assumptions &/or large sample theory.
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Levene Test for fat-tailed distributions
I am trying to perform Levene's Test on two arrays of values representing the frequency distribution of empirical data. I use the scipy.stats.levene package and ...
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How does Normal approximation work when ties exist for Wilcoxon Signed rank test?
I ran wilcox.test() in R (outcome variable was a test score and the data was paired samples) and got a warning message saying that it cannot generate a p-value for tied values. I saw the R document ...
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How to perform an exact test of Chi-square for a single-dimension data in R?
I have a data frame like this:
> fr.t.r
A B C D E
Freq 13 3 0 0 0
and I would like to do a Chi-square test to find out if the ...
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How IBM SPSS calculates exact p value for Pearson Chi-Square statistic?
Usually, I use Fisher's exact test p value when the sample size is small for Pearson chi-square test. Then I realized that IBM SPSS reports exact p values for all the tests (i.e. Pearson Chi-Square, ...
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when an exact binomial confidence interval should be used?
Is exact binomial confidence interval only appropriate for extremely rare events or extremely frequent events? If so, what are the rule of thumb for the definitions of extremely rare (<0.01?) And ...
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Exact MCMC Logistic Regression Output
I am having trouble interpreting the output of an MCMC Logistic Regression run using R from the MCMCpack. Unfortunately I have had very little luck in finding sources on the web.
I am assuming that ...
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LRT and $\text{Uniform}(0, \theta)$
We have one observation of variable $X$ that is distributed uniformly on $[0, \theta]$. Null hypothesis is $H_0 \colon \theta = 1$ and alternative hypothesis is $H_1 \colon \theta = 2$.
What is the ...
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Drawing conclusions of several inferences with the same data in one study
In a sample size of 100, we identified the existence of two attributes A and B.
Our goal is to assess whether there is any ...
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Barnard's exact tests - papers?
I am currently writing some essay for the university in which I should give a quick overview over exact methods for independence testing on contingency tables, after writing down the stuff for Fisher'...
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Boschloo's exact test
I have following data in R:
d1 <- matrix(c(24,2,63,11),2,2,
dimnames=list(X=c("present", "absent"),Y=c("present", "absent")))
I want to test ...
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z-test for one population proportion hypothesis with a small sample size
I have asked a "yes/no" question to a small group of people (n = 22). From the 22, 14 answered "yes" and 8 answered "no". I'd like to find out, with 90% confidence, if the majority of my population (> ...
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Sample size determination for comparing two independent samples with regards to several continuous variables
I am interested in calculating the required sample size to perform several statistical tests on the same sample.
More precisely, this is the situation:
There are two groups of individuals, A and B, ...
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Exact Null Distribution with Ties
I am interested in deriving exact null distributions for small-sample test statistics with non-trivial ties. Not fundamentally continuous variables that happen to have a few repeated values, but ...
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pre-post testing: paired nominal data with more than 2 categories
I have two groups of students who answered a question on the pre-survey about their savings behavior, i.e. choose one answer a/b/c/e/d/f: (a) Save the same amount each week, (b) Save varied amount ...
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how we do student T-Test?
In my data water is control and gibberellin is positive control. We want do find the activity of steviol against water and gibberellin. How we do student T-Test?. My data of height of plant in cm is ...
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Covariates in a case control study
I am doing a retrospective analysis on a study has has cases and controls. I am looking to see if there is an association with death, using exact logistic regression. I am confused on whether I need ...
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Threshold for and Variations of Exact logistic regression
According to this UCLA tutorial exact logistic regression (elrm::elrm in R) should be prefered to the logistic regression ...
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Exact multinomial goodness-of-fit test as a normality test
We have a practical real-life problem in an open source Linux related project. And I would like to hear an expert review/opinion about the way we are trying to solve this problem. It's been more than ...
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How do you know if your confidence interval is exact or approximate?
I would like to know the rules between the two, and know how you know the differences.
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What is the minimum sample size for an exact binomial test of goodness of fit (two-tailed)?
I am doing a two tailed exact binomial goodness of fit test, see, e.g., here. I am looking for something similar as for Chi-square tests, which, as a rule of thumb, require a frequency of 5 for each ...
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Exact test for m x n contingency table conditional (i.e. fixed by design) on one margin
I have a $m \times n$ contingency table (with $m, n > 2)$ . The experiment yields ~15% cells with expected frequencies lower 5 and also zero counts in the empirical data. The prerequisite for the ...
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Test of strict difference in independent binomial probabilities
Suppose $X,Y$ are two independent binomial random variables with parameters $n_1,p_1$ and $n_2,p_2$ respectively. Suppose one wanted to test the hypothesis $p_1>p_2$. Conditional on $X+Y=s$, ...
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Non-parametric, repeated measures two-sample test with small sample size
My data consists in two samples relative to the expression of a given gene, with 4 replications in both samples.
I am interested in testing whether the two samples come from the same population, ...
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Questions about non-standard test statistic for difference of two population proportions
Background
I'm considering the number of observed 'successes' $x_1$ and $x_2$ from $n_1$ and $n_2$ independent trials respectively. These counts can be considered realisations of random variables $...
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Test to distinguish periodic from almost periodic data
Suppose I have some unknown function $f$ with domain $ℝ$, which I know to fulfill some reasonable conditions like continuity. I know the exact values of $f$ (because the data comes from a simulation) ...
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An exact paired perm.test is returning a p-value of 0 for large sample sizes
I'm trying to find the p-value from an exact paired permutation test. For small samples it works fine:
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Proper analyses for 2x2 contingency tables
So I have multiple questions about the different types of analyses that can be used on a 2x2 contingency table and when different analyses should be used.
To open, I'll note that this stems from my ...
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Is the binomial sign test really the exact McNemar test?
I am calculating two different $p$ values for the McNemar test and what I believe is the corresponding exact test, even for combined counts larger than 25.
Take, for example the contingency table
<...
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exact test on proportion: confidence intervals vs p value [duplicate]
I have the following 2x2 table
NO YES
9690 5 LOW
26354 39 HIGH
I want to
plot the proportions and ...
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Exact p-value for any nonparametric test
After having found the R-package coin, I have a question.
For example, to get an exact p-value, I could use the function ...
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Exact probability and asymptotic approximation
From Wikipedia
A large amount of computing resources is required to compute exact probabilities for the Kruskal-Wallis test. Existing software only provides exact probabilities for sample sizes ...
