Al Chou wrote:
--- Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Currently, o.a.c.m.stat.inference has one interface, TestStatistic, that includes both t- and chi-square test statistics and tests. I think that it would be better to split these out into two interfaces -- TTest and ChiSquareTest (also splitting the impls accordingly). Any objections to
this?


Not having any real familiarity with the stat package, here's just a general
question:  is there any value to TestStatistic remaining as a parent interface
that TTest and ChiSquareTest extend?  Or would that just be silly?

Interesting idea, but I don't see much that can be abstracted. Basically, TestStatistic provides test statistics and computes p-values for Chi-Square and t-tests. The only thing common among these is that the tests are statistical tests and all that could be abstracted would be the p-value computation, which is not much IMHO. I am interested in what others think, though.


Have a look at the new interfaces after I split them out. I am going to slip support for chi-square tests for independence in two-way tables into the chi-square stuff to round out that interface.

Phil



Al




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