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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, z] = z_test (x, m, v [, alt])
- ##
- ## Perform a Z-test of the null hypothesis mean(x) == m for a sample x
- ## from a normal distribution with unknown mean and known variance v.
- ## Under the null, the test statistic z follows a standard normal
- ## distribution.
- ##
- ## 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 mean(x) != m.
- ## If alt is ">", the one-sided alternative mean(x) > m is considered,
- ## 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
- ## along with some information.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Test for mean of a normal sample with known variance
-
- function [pval, z] = z_test (x, m, v, alt)
-
- if ((nargin < 3) || (nargin > 4))
- usage ("[pval, z] = z_test (x, m, v [, alt])");
- endif
-
- if (! is_vector (x))
- error ("z_test: x must be a vector.");
- endif
- if (! is_scalar (m))
- error ("z_test: m must be a scalar.");
- endif
- if (! (is_scalar (v) && (v > 0)))
- error ("z_test: v must be a positive scalar.");
- endif
-
- n = length (x);
- z = sqrt (n/v) * (sum (x) / n - m);
- cdf = stdnormal_cdf (z);
-
- if (nargin == 3)
- alt = "!=";
- endif
-
- if (! isstr (alt))
- error ("z_test: alt must be a string");
- elseif (strcmp (alt, "!=") || strcmp (alt, "<>"))
- pval = 2 * min (cdf, 1 - cdf);
- elseif (strcmp (alt, ">"))
- pval = 1 - cdf;
- elseif (strcmp (alt, "<"))
- pval = cdf;
- else
- error (sprintf ("z_test: option %s not recognized", alt));
- endif
-
- if (nargout == 0)
- s = strcat ("Z-test of mean(x) == %g against mean(x) %s %g,\n",
- "with known var(x) == %g:\n",
- " pval = %g\n");
- printf (s, m, alt, m, v, pval);
- endif
-
- endfunction
-