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;; Chi-square test of independence:
;; testing the independence of eye and hair color
;; for both males and females
(use '(incanter core stats charts datasets))
(def by-gender (group-by (get-dataset :hair-eye-color) 2))
(def male-data (first by-gender))
(view male-data)
(def female-data (second by-gender))
(view female-data)
(def m-hair (sel male-data :cols 0))
(def m-eye (sel male-data :cols 1))
(def m-count (sel male-data :cols 3))
(view (bar-chart m-hair m-count
:group-by m-eye
:legend true
:title "Male Hair and Eye Color"
:x-label "Hair Color"
:y-label "Number of males"))
(def f-hair (sel female-data :cols 0))
(def f-eye (sel female-data :cols 1))
(def f-count (sel female-data :cols 3))
(view (bar-chart f-hair f-count
:group-by f-eye
:legend true
:title "Female Hair and Eye Color"
:x-label "Hair Color"
:y-label "Number of females"))
;; make contigency tables
(def m-table (matrix m-count 4))
(def f-table (matrix f-count 4))
(def m-test (chisq-test :table m-table))
(def f-test (chisq-test :table f-table))
(:X-sq m-test)
(:p-value m-test)
(:df m-test)
(:X-sq f-test)
(:p-value f-test)
(:df f-test)
;; In addition to contingency tables, you can pass raw data to the chisq-test.
;; the math-prog data set includes three columns: student_id, high school math
;; proficiency test pass/fail results, and freshman college programming course
;; pass/fail results.
;; This example will test whether there is any correlation between
;; the pass/fail results of a high school mathematics proficiency test and
;; a freshman college programming course
(def math-prog (to-matrix (get-dataset :math-prog)))
(def math (sel math-prog :cols 1))
(def prog (sel math-prog :cols 2))
(def math-prog-test (chisq-test :x math :y prog))
;; X-sq = 1.24145, df=1, p-value = 0.26519
;; can't reject null hypothesis, the the
;; results of the math exam is independent of
;; the pass/fail results of the college programming
;; course.
(:X-sq math-prog-test)
(:df math-prog-test)
(:p-value math-prog-test)
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