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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, chisq, df] = bartlett_test (x1, ...)
- ##
- ## Performs a Bartlett test for the homogeneity of variances in the data
- ## vectors x1, x2, ..., xk, where k > 1.
- ##
- ## Under the null of equal variances, the test statistic chisq
- ## approximately ollows a chi-square distribution with df degrees of
- ## freedom; pval is the p-value (1 minus the CDF of this distribution at
- ## chisq) of the test.
- ##
- ## If no output argument is given, the p-value is displayed.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Bartlett test for homogeneity of variances
-
- function [pval, chisq, df] = bartlett_test (...)
-
- k = nargin;
- if (k < 2)
- usage ("[pval, chisq, df] = bartlett_test (x1, ...)");
- endif
-
- f = zeros (k, 1);
- v = zeros (k, 1);
- va_start ();
- for i = 1 : k;
- x = va_arg ();
- if (! is_vector (x))
- error ("bartlett_test: all arguments must be vectors");
- endif
- f(i) = length (x) - 1;
- v(i) = var (x);
- endfor
-
- f_tot = sum (f);
- v_tot = sum (f .* v) / f_tot;
- c = 1 + (sum (1 ./ f) - 1 / f_tot) / (3 * (k - 1));
- chisq = (f_tot * log (v_tot) - sum (f .* log (v))) / c;
- df = k;
- pval = 1 - chisquare_cdf (chisq, df);
-
- if (nargout == 0)
- printf(" pval: %g\n", pval);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-