@{A,D@}
@end display
-The @cmd{DESCRIPTIVES} procedure reads the active file and outputs
+The @cmd{DESCRIPTIVES} procedure reads the active dataset and outputs
descriptive
statistics requested by the user. In addition, it can optionally
compute Z-scores.
@menu
* BINOMIAL:: Binomial Test
* CHISQUARE:: Chisquare Test
+* COCHRAN:: Cochran Q Test
+* FRIEDMAN:: Friedman Test
+* KENDALL:: Kendall's W Test
* KRUSKAL-WALLIS:: Kruskal-Wallis Test
-* WILCOXON:: Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
+* MANN-WHITNEY:: Mann Whitney U Test
+* MCNEMAR:: McNemar Test
+* RUNS:: Runs Test
* SIGN:: The Sign Test
+* WILCOXON:: Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
@end menu
are expected.
+@node COCHRAN
+@subsection Cochran Q Test
+@vindex Cochran
+@cindex Cochran Q test
+@cindex Q, Cochran Q
+
+@display
+ [ /COCHRAN = varlist ]
+@end display
+
+The Cochran Q test is used to test for differences between three or more groups.
+The data for @var{varlist} in all cases must assume exactly two distinct values (other than missing values).
+
+The value of Q will be displayed and its Asymptotic significance based on a chi-square distribution.
+
+@node FRIEDMAN
+@subsection Friedman Test
+@vindex FRIEDMAN
+@cindex Friedman test
+
+@display
+ [ /FRIEDMAN = varlist ]
+@end display
+
+The Friedman test is used to test for differences between repeated measures when there is no indication that the distributions are normally distributed.
+
+A list of variables which contain the measured data must be given. The procedure prints the sum of ranks for each variable, the test statistic and its significance.
+
+@node KENDALL
+@subsection Kendall's W Test
+@vindex KENDALL
+@cindex Kendall's W test
+@cindex coefficient of concordance
+
+@display
+ [ /KENDALL = varlist ]
+@end display
+
+The Kendall test investigates whether an arbitrary number of related samples come from the
+same population.
+It is identical to the Friedman test except that the additional statistic W, Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance is printed.
+It has the range [0,1] --- a value of zero indicates no agreement between the samples whereas a value of
+unity indicates complete agreement.
+
+
@node KRUSKAL-WALLIS
@subsection Kruskal-Wallis Test
-@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@vindex KRUSKAL-WALLIS
@vindex K-W
@cindex Kruskal-Wallis test
The abbreviated subcommand K-W may be used in place of KRUSKAL-WALLIS.
-@node WILCOXON
-@subsection Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Ranks Test
-@comment node-name, next, previous, up
-@vindex WILCOXON
-@cindex wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test
+@node MANN-WHITNEY
+@subsection Mann-Whitney U Test
+@vindex MANN-WHITNEY
+@vindex M-W
+@cindex Mann-Whitney U test
+@cindex U, Mann-Whitney U
@display
- [ /WILCOXON varlist [ WITH varlist [ (PAIRED) ]]]
+ [ /MANN-WHITNEY = varlist BY var (group1, group2) ]
@end display
-The /WILCOXON subcommand tests for differences between medians of the
-variables listed.
-The test does not make any assumptions about the variances of the samples.
-It does however assume that the distribution is symetrical.
+The Mann-Whitney subcommand is used to test whether two groups of data come from different populations.
+The variables to be tested should be specified in @var{varlist} and the grouping variable, that determines to which group the test variables belong, in @var{var}.
+@var{Var} may be either a string or an alpha variable.
+@var{Group1} and @var{group2} specify the
+two values of @var{var} which determine the groups of the test data.
+Cases for which the @var{var} value is neither @var{group1} or @var{group2} will be ignored.
+
+The value of the Mann-Whitney U statistic, the Wilcoxon W, and the significance will be printed.
+The abbreviated subcommand M-W may be used in place of MANN-WHITNEY.
+
+@node MCNEMAR
+@subsection McNemar Test
+@vindex MCNEMAR
+@cindex McNemar test
+
+@display
+ [ /MCNEMAR varlist [ WITH varlist [ (PAIRED) ]]]
+@end display
+
+Use McNemar's test to analyse the significance of the difference between
+pairs of correlated proportions.
If the @code{WITH} keyword is omitted, then tests for all
combinations of the listed variables are performed.
of variable preceding @code{WITH} against variable following
@code{WITH} are performed.
+The data in each variable must be dichotomous. If there are more
+than two distinct variables an error will occur and the test will
+not be run.
+
+@node RUNS
+@subsection Runs Test
+@vindex RUNS
+@cindex runs test
+
+@display
+ [ /RUNS (@{MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE, value@}) varlist ]
+@end display
+
+The /RUNS subcommand tests whether a data sequence is randomly ordered.
+
+It works by examining the number of times a variable's value crosses a given threshold.
+The desired threshold must be specified within parentheses.
+It may either be specified as a number or as one of MEAN, MEDIAN or MODE.
+Following the threshold specification comes the list of variables whose values are to be
+tested.
+
+The subcommand shows the number of runs, the asymptotic significance based on the
+length of the data.
@node SIGN
@subsection Sign Test
of variable preceding @code{WITH} against variable following
@code{WITH} are performed.
+@node WILCOXON
+@subsection Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed Ranks Test
+@comment node-name, next, previous, up
+@vindex WILCOXON
+@cindex wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test
+
+@display
+ [ /WILCOXON varlist [ WITH varlist [ (PAIRED) ]]]
+@end display
+
+The /WILCOXON subcommand tests for differences between medians of the
+variables listed.
+The test does not make any assumptions about the variances of the samples.
+It does however assume that the distribution is symetrical.
+
+If the @code{WITH} keyword is omitted, then tests for all
+combinations of the listed variables are performed.
+If the @code{WITH} keyword is given, and the @code{(PAIRED)} keyword
+is also given, then the number of variables preceding @code{WITH}
+must be the same as the number following it.
+In this case, tests for each respective pair of variables are
+performed.
+If the @code{WITH} keyword is given, but the
+@code{(PAIRED)} keyword is omitted, then tests for each combination
+of variable preceding @code{WITH} against variable following
+@code{WITH} are performed.
+
@node T-TEST
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@section T-TEST
/MISSING=@{ANALYSIS,LISTWISE@} @{EXCLUDE,INCLUDE@}
/CONTRAST= value1 [, value2] ... [,valueN]
/STATISTICS=@{DESCRIPTIVES,HOMOGENEITY@}
-
+ /POSTHOC=@{BONFERRONI, GH, LSD, SCHEFFE, SIDAK, TUKEY, ALPHA ([value])@}
@end display
The @cmd{ONEWAY} procedure performs a one-way analysis of variance of
user-missing are to be excluded from the analysis. A setting of
INCLUDE means they are to be included. The default is EXCLUDE.
+Using the @code{POSTHOC} subcommand you can perform multiple
+pairwise comparisons on the data. The following comparison methods
+are available:
+@itemize
+@item LSD
+Least Significant Difference.
+@item TUKEY
+Tukey Honestly Significant Difference.
+@item BONFERRONI
+Bonferroni test.
+@item SCHEFFE
+Scheff@'e's test.
+@item SIDAK
+Sidak test.
+@item GH
+The Games-Howell test.
+@end itemize
+
+@noindent
+The optional syntax @code{ALPHA(@var{value})} is used to indicate
+that @var{value} should be used as the
+confidence level for which the posthoc tests will be performed.
+The default is 0.05.
@node RANK
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
projects / pspp / blobdiff