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ordinal.chisq: Chisq test for ordinal values

Description

This function computes a chisq test for ordinal values

Usage

ordinal.chisq(x)

Arguments

x

a contingency table with ordinal values in column

Value

Chisq statistics and pvalues

Details

This function applies a ordinal chisq test as described in http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/More_Stuff/OrdinalChisq/OrdinalChiSq.html. The results are identical to those returned by SPSS

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
##General hypothesis : was that participants who had experienced more traumatic events
## during childhood would be more likely to drop out of treatment.
trau=matrix(c(25,13,9,10,6,31,21,6,2,3), byrow=TRUE, nrow=2)
colnames(trau)<-c("0","1","2","3","4+")
rownames(trau)<-c("dropout","remain")
ordinal.chisq(trau)

##Association between grade and local breast cancer relapse
grade <- matrix(c(16,42,71,4,27,49), ncol=3, byrow=TRUE)
colnames(grade)<-c("low", "intermediate","high")
rownames(grade)<-c("0", "1")

ordinal.chisq(grade)

# }

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