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RE: [S] Multivariate hypothesis tests

To: "'Lutz Prechelt'" <prechelt@ira.uka.de>
Subject: RE: [S] Multivariate hypothesis tests
From: "Biggerstaff, Brad J." <bkb5@cdc.gov>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:50:57 -0500
Cc: "'s-news@wubios.wustl.edu'" <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
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Dr. Prechelt:

I have coded for S-Plus Paul Mielke, Jr., and Ken Berry's multi-response
permutation procedures, special cases of which are permutation versions of
standard multivariate tests.  The workhorse part of the routine is written
in C, for which I have compiled a dll for Windows machines; I would provide
the code for UNIX and other compilation, though I wouldn't be able to
provide guidance for that.  

Primary references for the methods are:

Mielke, Paul W., Jr., The application of multivariate permutation methods
based on disstance functions in the earth sciences, Earth-Science Reviews,
31:55-71, 1991.

Mielke, Paul W., Jr. and Berry, Kenneth J., Multi-response permutation
procedures for a priori classifications, Comm. in Stat.-Theor. Meth.,
A5(14):1409-1424, 1976.

Mielke, Paul W., Jr. and Berry, Kenneth J., Permutation tests for common
locations among samples with unequal variances, J. Educ. and Behav. Stat.,
19(3):217-236, 1994.

The routines I have written include print, summary, and update methods, and
I'm working on a routine to use the methodology for classification.
Further, I have an associated help page.  (For windows machines these are
included in a larger library which also has menus and dialog boxes.)

Let me know if you're interested and I can forward you the code.

Brad

Brad Biggerstaff, Ph.D.
Mathematical Statistican
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
P.O. Box 2087
Fort Collins, CO  80522-2087   U.S.A.
(970) 221-6473              bkb5@cdc.gov





-----Original Message-----
From: Lutz Prechelt [mailto:prechelt@ira.uka.de]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:14 AM
To: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
Subject: [S] Multivariate hypothesis tests



Hi all,

I am looking for S implementations of multivariate significance
tests.
Neither the S-Plus 5 manual, nor VR2, nor statlib appear to have
any.

Specifically, I need to test two bivariate samples for 
a difference in means. Both variables are from continuous
distributions but one has a strong ceiling effect and the
other I would rather also not trust to be normally distributed.

Any hints, please?
Thanks in advance

  Lutz

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