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tabcmp - Student T and F test for mean and variance comparisons

Synopsis

tabcmp [parameter=value]

Description

tabcmp compares two columns from two tables. It uses the Student’s t-test and f-test to assess if their means and variances are significantly different. It also assesses the two distributions using a non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.


t-test      different mean? But variances are expected to be the same
tu-test      different mean? But variances are allowed different
tp-test       different mean? Paired arrays
f-test        different variances? Different arrays allowed
ks2           non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

Parameters

The following parameters are recognized in any order if the keyword is also given:
in1=
First dataset, a simple ascii table. No default.
in2=
Second dataset. No default.
col1=
Column from 1st dataset (in1=). Default: 1.
col2=
Column from 2nd dataset (in2=). Default: 1.
nmax=
Max allocated lines in data if from a pipe. Default: 10000.

Examples

Here is an example to compare two gaussian distributions, fully done through NEMO. First create two simple tables, random gaussian numbers with mean 0 and dispersion 1 (make sure they are not identical, or use seed=-1 in tabmath):
    % nemoinp 1:20 | tabmath - - "rang(0,1)" all > tab1
    % nemoinp 1:20 | tabmath - - "rang(0,1)" all > tab2
    % cmp tab1 tab2
    % tabcmp tab1 tab2
    F-test: f=1.33497  prob=0.535006
    T-test: t=-0.77149  prob=0.445188
    TU-test: tu=-0.77149  prob=0.445285
    TP-test: tp=-0.796496  prob=0.435584
    KS2-test: ks2=0.15  prob=0.965485

Bugs

Paired t-Test cannot handle identical arrays.

See Also

tabhist(1NEMO) , tabplot(1NEMO) , table(5NEMO) , nemoinp(1NEMO) , tabmath(1NEMO)
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/KS-test.n.plot_form.html
Filessrc/kernel/tab/tabcmp.c AuthorPeter Teuben Update History
7-Oct-97    V0.1 adopted from Numerical Recipes routines    PJT
8-oct-97    V0.2 added col1=,col2= and same-table processing    PJT
5-oct-00    V0.3 added KS2 test, also from NR    PJT
10-aug-03    fixed kstwo() indexing error    PJT


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