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carl anderson commented on MATH-175:
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Hi Phil,

I coded a rescaling, as below, but I have to admit that I spent a long
time puzzling over why results from Java differed from those with R
because neither threw an exception or any warning that the argument sums
differed. It just didn't occur to me at first that this was an issue.

Carl


package com.archimedesmodel.automation.stats;

import org.apache.commons.math.stat.inference.ChiSquareTestImpl;

public class ArchiChiSquared extends ChiSquareTestImpl {

        public double chiSquare(double[] expected, long[] observed)
                        throws IllegalArgumentException {
                double sumSq = 0.0d;
                double dev = 0.0d;
                if ((expected.length < 2) || (expected.length !=
observed.length)) {
                        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                                        "observed, expected array
lengths incorrect");
                }

                double sumObs = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < observed.length; i++) {
                        sumObs += observed[i];
                        if (observed[i] < 0) {
                                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                                                "observed counts must be
non-negative");
                        }
                }

                double sumExp = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < expected.length; i++) {
                        sumExp += expected[i];
                        if (expected[i] <= 0) {
                                throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                                                "expected counts must be
postive");
                        }
                }

                double ratio = 1.0;
                if (Double.compare(sumObs, sumExp) != 0) {
                        //log some warning?
                        ratio = sumObs / sumExp;
                }

                for (int i = 0; i < observed.length; i++) {
                        dev = ((double) observed[i] - ratio *
expected[i]);
                        sumSq += dev * dev / (ratio * expected[i]);
                }
                return sumSq;
        }

}









> chiSquare(double[] expected, long[] observed) is returning incorrect test 
> statistic
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-175
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-175
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>         Environment: windows xp
>            Reporter: carl anderson
>         Attachments: chi.xls
>
>
> ChiSquareTestImpl is returning incorrect chi-squared value. An implicit 
> assumption of public double chiSquare(double[] expected, long[] observed) is 
> that the sum of expected and observed are equal. That is, in the code:
> for (int i = 0; i < observed.length; i++) {
>             dev = ((double) observed[i] - expected[i]);
>             sumSq += dev * dev / expected[i];
>         }
> this calculation is only correct if sum(observed)==sum(expected). When they 
> are not equal then one must rescale the expected value by sum(observed) / 
> sum(expected) so that they are.
> Ironically, it is an example in the unit test ChiSquareTestTest that 
> highlights the error:
> long[] observed1 = { 500, 623, 72, 70, 31 };
>         double[] expected1 = { 485, 541, 82, 61, 37 };
>         assertEquals( "chi-square test statistic", 16.4131070362, 
> testStatistic.chiSquare(expected1, observed1), 1E-10);
>         assertEquals("chi-square p-value", 0.002512096, 
> testStatistic.chiSquareTest(expected1, observed1), 1E-9);
> 16.413 is not correct because the expected values do not make sense, they 
> should be: 521.19403 581.37313  88.11940  65.55224  39.76119 so that the sum 
> of expected equals 1296 which is the sum of observed.
> Here is some R code (r-project.org) which proves it:
> > o1
> [1] 500 623  72  70  31
> > e1
> [1] 485 541  82  61  37
> > chisq.test(o1,p=e1,rescale.p=TRUE)
>         Chi-squared test for given probabilities
> data:  o1 
> X-squared = 9.0233, df = 4, p-value = 0.06052
> > chisq.test(o1,p=e1,rescale.p=TRUE)$observed
> [1] 500 623  72  70  31
> > chisq.test(o1,p=e1,rescale.p=TRUE)$expected
> [1] 521.19403 581.37313  88.11940  65.55224  39.76119
>  

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