Chapter 14 Tests of Hypotheses Based on Count Data
14.2 Tests concerning proportions (large samples)
14.3 Differences between proportions 14.4 The analysis of an r x c table
14.2 Tests concerning proportions (large samples)
np>5; n(1-p)>5 n independent trials; X=# of successes p=probability of a success Estimate:
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Tests of Hypotheses
Null H0: p=p0
Possible Alternatives:
HA: p<p0
HA: p>p0
HA: pp0
Test Statistics
Under H0, p=p0, and
Statistic:
is approximately standard normal under H0 .
Reject H0 if z is too far from 0 in either direction.
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Alternative Hypotheses
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Rejection Regions
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Example 14.1
H0: p=0.75 vs HA: p0.75
=0.05 n=300 x=206 Reject H0 if z<-1.96 or z>1.96
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Example 14.2
Toss a coin 100 times and you get 45 heads Estimate p=probability of getting a head
Is the coin balanced one? =0.05
Solution:
H0: p=0.50 vs HA: p0.50
45.0100
45ˆ p
Enough Evidence to Reject H0?
Critical value z0.025=1.96 Reject H0 if z>1.96 or z<-1.96
Conclusion: accept H0
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Another example
The following table is for a certain screening test
91010Results Negative
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Cancer Absent
Cancer Present
FNA status
Truth = surgical biopsy
Total
220
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Total 150 990 1140
True positive 140sensitivity 0.93
True Positives False Negatives 150
Test to see if the sensitivity of the screening test is less than 97%.
Hypothesis
Test statistic
0 0
0
: .97
: .97
H p p
Ha p p
0 0
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standard error of the estimated proportion
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Check p-value when z=-2.6325, p-value = 0.004
Conclusion: we can reject the null hypothesis at level 0.05.
What is the conclusion?
One word of caution about sample size: If we decrease the sample size by a factor of 10,
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Cancer Absent
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FNA status
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True positive 14sensitivity 0.93
True Positives False Negatives 15
And if we try to use the z-test,
0 0
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standard error of the estimated proportion
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P-value is greater than 0.05 for sure (p=0.2026). So we cannot reach the same conclusion.
And this is wrong!
So for test concerning proportions
We want
np>5; n(1-p)>5
14.3 Differences Between Proportions
Two drugs (two treatments) p1 =percentage of patients recovered after
taking drug 1 p2 =percentage of patients recovered after
taking drug 2 Compare effectiveness of two drugs
Tests of Hypotheses
Null H0: p1=p2 (p1-p2 =0)
Possible Alternatives:
HA: p1<p2
HA: p1>p2
HA: p1p2
Compare Two Proportions
Drug 1: n1 patients, x1 recovered
Drug 2: n2 patients, x2 recovered
Estimates: Statistic for test:
If we did this study over and over and drew a histogram of the resulting values of , that histogram or distribution would have standard deviation
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Under H0, p1=p2=p. So
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Example 12.3
Two sided test: H0: p1=p2 vs HA: p1p2
n1=80, x1=56
n2=80, x2=38
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Two Tailed Test
Observed z-value:
Critical value for two-tailed test: 1.96 Conclusion: Reject H0 since |z|>1.96
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Rejection Regions
Alternative Hypotheses
HA: p1>p2
HA: p1<p2
HA: p1p2
Rejection Regions
z>z z<-z z>z/2 or
z<-z/2
P-value of the previous example
P-value=P(z<-2.88)+P(z>2.88)=2*0.004
So not only we can reject H0 at 0.05 level, we can also reject at 0.01 level.
14.4 The analysis of an r x c table
Recall Example 12.3 Two sided test; H0: p1=p2 vs HA: p1p2
n1=80, x1=56 n2=80, x2=38
We can put this into a 2x2 table and the question now becomes is there a relationship between treatment and outcome? We will come back to this example after we introduce 2x2 tables and chi-square test.
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The table shows the data from a study of 91 patients who had a myocardial infarction (Snow 1965). One variable is treatment (propranolol versus a placebo), and the other is outcome (survival for at least 28 days versus death within 28 days).
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Hypotheses for Two-way TablesHypotheses for Two-way Tables
The hypotheses for two-way tables are very “broad stroke”.
• The null hypothesis H0 is simply that there is no association between the row and column variable.
• The alternative hypothesis Ha is that there is an association between the two variables. It doesn’t specify a particular direction and can’t really be described as one-sided or two-sided.
Hypothesis statement in Our Example
Null hypothesis: the method of treating the myocardial infarction patients did not influence the proportion of patients who survived for at least 28 days.
The alternative hypothesis is that the outcome (survival or death) depended on the treatment, meaning that the outcomes was the dependent variable and the treatment was the independent variable.
Calculation of Expected Cell Count
To test the null hypothesis, we compare the observed cell counts (or frequencies) to the expected cell counts (also called the expected frequencies)
The process of comparing the observed counts with the expected counts is called a goodness-of-fit test. (If the chi-square value is small, the fit is good and the null hypothesis is not rejected.)
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2 = (observed count – expected count)2/expected count
Degrees of freedom (df) = (r –1) x (c – 1)
Where “observed” is an observed sample count and “expected” is the computed expected cell count for the same cell, r is the number of rows, c is the number of columns, and the sum () is over all the r x c cells in the table (these do not include the total cells).
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Example: Patient Compliance w/ RxExample: Patient Compliance w/ Rx
TreatmentCompliance 10 mg Daily 5 mg bid Total
95%+ 46 40 86
< 95% 4 10 14
Total 50 50100
In a study of 100 patients with hypertension, 50 were randomly allocated to a group prescribed 10 mg lisinopril to be taken once daily, while the other 50 patients were prescribed 5 mg lisinopril to be taken twice daily. At the end of the 60 day study period the patients returned their remaining medication to the research pharmacy. The pharmacy then counted the remaining pills and classified each patient as < 95% or 95%+ compliant with their prescription. The two-way table for Compliance and Treatment was:
Example: Patient Compliance w/ RxExample: Patient Compliance w/ Rx
TreatmentCompliance 10 mg Daily 5 mg bid Total95%+ 460 400 860< 95% 40 100 140Total 500 5001000
TreatmentCompliance 10 mg Daily 5 mg bid Total95%+ 430 430 860< 95% 70 70 140Total 500 5001000
The expected cell counts were:
2 = 29.9, df = (2-1)*(2-1) = 1, P-value <0.001
If we use the two sample test for proportion
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The The 22 and and zz Test Statistics Test StatisticsThe comparison of the proportions of “successes” in two populations leads to a 2 x 2 table, so the population proportions can be compared either using the 2 test or the two-sample z test . It really doesn’t matter, because they always give exactly the same result, because the 2 is equal to the square of the z statistic and the chi-square with one degree of freedom 2
(1) critical values are equal to the squares of the corresponding z critical values.• A P-value for the 2 x 2 2 can be found by calculating the square
root of the chi-square, looking that up in Table for P(Z > z) and multiplying by 2, because the chi-square always tests the two-sided alternative.
• For a 2 x 2 table with a one-sided alternative hypothesis the two-sample z statistic would need to be used.
• To test more than two populations the chi-square must be used• The chi-square is the one most often seen in the literature
Summary: Computations for Two-way TablesSummary: Computations for Two-way Tables
1. create the table, including observed cell counts, column and row totals.
2. Find the expected cell counts.
• Determine if a 2 test is appropriate
• Calculate the 2 statistic and number of degrees of freedom
3. Find the approximate P-value
• use Table III chi-square table to find the approximate P-value
• or use z-table and find the two-tailed p-value if it is 2 x 2.
4. Draw conclusions about the association between the row and column variables.
Yates Correction for Continuity
The chi-square test is based on the normal approximation of the binomial distribution (discrete), many statisticians believe a correction for continuity is needed.
It makes little difference if the numbers in the table are large, but in tables with small numbers it is worth doing.
It reduces the size of the chi-square value and so reduces the chance of finding a statistically significant difference, so that correction for continuity makes the test more conservative.
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What do we do if the expected values in any of the cells in a 2x2
table is below 5?For example, a sample of teenagers might be divided into male and female on the one hand, and those that are and are not currently dieting on the other. We hypothesize, perhaps, that the proportion of dieting individuals is higher among the women than among the men, and we want to test whether any difference of proportions that we observe is significant. The data might look like this:
men women total
dieting 1 9 10
not dieting
11 3 14
totals 12 12 24
The question we ask about these data is: knowing that 10 of these 24 teenagers are dieters, what is the probability that these 10 dieters would be so unevenly distributed between the girls and the boys? If we were to choose 10 of the teenagers at random, what is the probability that 9 of them would be among the 12 girls, and only 1 from among the 12 boys?
--Hypergeometric distribution!
--Fisher’s exact test uses hypergeometric distribution to calculate the “exact” probability of obtaining such set of the values.
Fisher’s exact test
Before we proceed with the Fisher test, we first introduce some notation. We represent the cells by the letters a, b, c and d, call the totals across rows and columns marginal totals, and represent the grand total by n. So the table now looks like this:
men women total
dieting a b a + b
not dieting
c d c + d
totals a + c b + d n
Fisher showed that the probability of obtaining any such set of values was given by the hypergeometric distribution:
men women total
dieting a b a + b
not dieting c d c + d
totals a + c b + d n
In our example
10!14!12!12!0.00134
24!1!9!11!3!p
Recall that p-value is the probability of observing data as extreme or more extreme if the null hypothesis is true. So the p-value is this problem is 0.00137.
10!14!12!12!0.00003
24!0!10!12!2!p
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The fisher Exact Probability Test Used when one or more of the expected counts in a contingency
table is small (<2). Fisher's Exact Test is based on exact probabilities from a
specific distribution (the hypergeometric distribution). There's really no lower bound on the amount of data that is
needed for Fisher's Exact Test. You can use Fisher's Exact Test when one of the cells in your table has a zero in it. Fisher's Exact Test is also very useful for highly imbalanced tables. If one or two of the cells in a two by two table have numbers in the thousands and one or two of the other cells has numbers less than 5, you can still use Fisher's Exact Test.
Fisher's Exact Test has no formal test statistic and no critical value, and it only gives you a p-value.