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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: [pval, f, df_num, df_den] = var_test (x, y [, alt])
- ##
- ## For two samples x and y from normal distributions with unknown
- ## means and unknown variances, perform an F-test of the null
- ## hypothesis of equal variances.
- ## Under the null, the test statistic f follows an F-distribution
- ## with df_num and df_den degrees of freedom.
- ##
- ## With the optional argument string alt, the alternative of interest
- ## can be selected.
- ## If alt is "!=" or "<>", the null is tested against the two-sided
- ## alternative var(x) != var(y).
- ## If alt is ">", the one-sided alternative var(x) > var(y) is used,
- ## similarly for "<".
- ## The default is the two-sided case.
- ##
- ## pval is the p-value of the test.
- ##
- ## If no output argument is given, the p-value of the test is displayed.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: F test to compare two variances
-
- function [pval, f, df_num, df_den] = var_test (x, y, alt)
-
- if ((nargin < 2) || (nargin > 3))
- usage ("[pval, f, df_num, df_den] = var_test (x, y [, alt])");
- endif
-
- if (! (is_vector (x) && is_vector (y)))
- error ("var_test: both x and y must be vectors");
- endif
-
- df_num = length (x) - 1;
- df_den = length (y) - 1;
- f = var (x) / var (y);
- cdf = f_cdf (f, df_num, df_den);
-
- if (nargin == 2)
- alt = "!=";
- endif
-
- if (! isstr (alt))
- error ("var_test: alt must be a string");
- endif
- if (strcmp (alt, "!=") || strcmp (alt, "<>"))
- pval = 2 * min (cdf, 1 - cdf);
- elseif (strcmp (alt, ">"))
- pval = 1 - cdf;
- elseif (strcmp (alt, "<"))
- pval = cdf;
- else
- error (sprintf ("var_test: option %s not recognized", alt));
- endif
-
- if (nargout == 0)
- printf ("pval: %g\n", pval);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-