stats (version 3.3.2)

mantelhaen.test: Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Chi-Squared Test for Count Data

Description

Performs a Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel chi-squared test of the null that two nominal variables are conditionally independent in each stratum, assuming that there is no three-way interaction.

Usage

mantelhaen.test(x, y = NULL, z = NULL,
                alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
                correct = TRUE, exact = FALSE, conf.level = 0.95)

Arguments

x

either a 3-dimensional contingency table in array form where each dimension is at least 2 and the last dimension corresponds to the strata, or a factor object with at least 2 levels.

y

a factor object with at least 2 levels; ignored if x is an array.

z

a factor object with at least 2 levels identifying to which stratum the corresponding elements in x and y belong; ignored if x is an array.

alternative

indicates the alternative hypothesis and must be one of "two.sided", "greater" or "less". You can specify just the initial letter. Only used in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

correct

a logical indicating whether to apply continuity correction when computing the test statistic. Only used in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

exact

a logical indicating whether the Mantel-Haenszel test or the exact conditional test (given the strata margins) should be computed. Only used in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

conf.level

confidence level for the returned confidence interval. Only used in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

Value

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:

statistic

Only present if no exact test is performed. In the classical case of a 2 by 2 by \(K\) table (i.e., of dichotomous underlying variables), the Mantel-Haenszel chi-squared statistic; otherwise, the generalized Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel statistic.

parameter

the degrees of freedom of the approximate chi-squared distribution of the test statistic (\(1\) in the classical case). Only present if no exact test is performed.

p.value

the p-value of the test.

conf.int

a confidence interval for the common odds ratio. Only present in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

estimate

an estimate of the common odds ratio. If an exact test is performed, the conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimate is given; otherwise, the Mantel-Haenszel estimate. Only present in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

null.value

the common odds ratio under the null of independence, 1. Only present in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

alternative

a character string describing the alternative hypothesis. Only present in the 2 by 2 by \(K\) case.

method

a character string indicating the method employed, and whether or not continuity correction was used.

data.name

a character string giving the names of the data.

Details

If x is an array, each dimension must be at least 2, and the entries should be nonnegative integers. NA's are not allowed. Otherwise, x, y and z must have the same length. Triples containing NA's are removed. All variables must take at least two different values.

References

Alan Agresti (1990). Categorical data analysis. New York: Wiley. Pages 230--235. Alan Agresti (2002). Categorical data analysis (second edition). New York: Wiley.

Examples

## Agresti (1990), pages 231--237, Penicillin and Rabbits
## Investigation of the effectiveness of immediately injected or 1.5
##  hours delayed penicillin in protecting rabbits against a lethal
##  injection with beta-hemolytic streptococci.
Rabbits <-
array(c(0, 0, 6, 5,
        3, 0, 3, 6,
        6, 2, 0, 4,
        5, 6, 1, 0,
        2, 5, 0, 0),
      dim = c(2, 2, 5),
      dimnames = list(
          Delay = c("None", "1.5h"),
          Response = c("Cured", "Died"),
          Penicillin.Level = c("1/8", "1/4", "1/2", "1", "4")))
Rabbits
## Classical Mantel-Haenszel test
mantelhaen.test(Rabbits)
## => p = 0.047, some evidence for higher cure rate of immediate
##               injection
## Exact conditional test
mantelhaen.test(Rabbits, exact = TRUE)
## => p - 0.040
## Exact conditional test for one-sided alternative of a higher
## cure rate for immediate injection
mantelhaen.test(Rabbits, exact = TRUE, alternative = "greater")
## => p = 0.020

## UC Berkeley Student Admissions
mantelhaen.test(UCBAdmissions)
## No evidence for association between admission and gender
## when adjusted for department.  However,
apply(UCBAdmissions, 3, function(x) (x[1,1]*x[2,2])/(x[1,2]*x[2,1]))
## This suggests that the assumption of homogeneous (conditional)
## odds ratios may be violated.  The traditional approach would be
## using the Woolf test for interaction:
woolf <- function(x) {
  x <- x + 1 / 2
  k <- dim(x)[3]
  or <- apply(x, 3, function(x) (x[1,1]*x[2,2])/(x[1,2]*x[2,1]))
  w <-  apply(x, 3, function(x) 1 / sum(1 / x))
  1 - pchisq(sum(w * (log(or) - weighted.mean(log(or), w)) ^ 2), k - 1)
}
woolf(UCBAdmissions)
## => p = 0.003, indicating that there is significant heterogeneity.
## (And hence the Mantel-Haenszel test cannot be used.)

## Agresti (2002), p. 287f and p. 297.
## Job Satisfaction example.
Satisfaction <-
    as.table(array(c(1, 2, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 2,
                     11, 17, 8, 4, 2, 3, 5, 2,
                     1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1,
                     2, 5, 7, 9, 1, 1, 3, 6),
                   dim = c(4, 4, 2),
                   dimnames =
                   list(Income =
                        c("<5000", "5000-15000",
                          "15000-25000", ">25000"),
                        "Job Satisfaction" =
                        c("V_D", "L_S", "M_S", "V_S"),
                        Gender = c("Female", "Male"))))
## (Satisfaction categories abbreviated for convenience.)
ftable(. ~ Gender + Income, Satisfaction)
## Table 7.8 in Agresti (2002), p. 288.
mantelhaen.test(Satisfaction)
## See Table 7.12 in Agresti (2002), p. 297.