NAME

Statistics::MVA::Bartlett - Multivariate Test of Equality of Population Covariance Matrices.

VERSION

This document describes Statistics::MVA::Bartlett version 0.0.4

SYNOPSIS

    # we have several groups of data each with 3 variables
    my $data_X = [
        [qw/ 191 131 53/],
        [qw/ 200 137 52/],
        [qw/ 173 127 50/],
        [qw/ 160 118 47/],
        [qw/ 188 134 54/],
        [qw/ 186 129 51/],
        [qw/ 163 115 47/],
    ];

    my $data_Y = [
        [qw/ 211 122 49/],
        [qw/ 201 144 47/],
        [qw/ 242 131 54/],
        [qw/ 184 108 43/],
        [qw/ 223 127 51/],
        [qw/ 208 125 50/],
        [qw/ 199 124 46/],
    ];
    
    my $data_Z = [
        [qw/ 185 134 50/],
        [qw/ 171 128 49/],
        [qw/ 174 131 52/],
        [qw/ 186 107 49/],
        [qw/ 211 118 51/],
        [qw/ 217 122 49/],
    ];

    use Statistics::MVA::Bartlett;
 
    # Create a Statistics::MVA::Bartlett object and pass it the data as a series of Lists-of-Lists within an anonymous array. 
    my $bart1 = Statistics::MVA::Bartlett->new([$data_X, $data_Y, $data_Z]);

    # Access the output using the bartlett_mva method. In void context it prints a report to STDOUT.
    $bart->bartlett_mva;

    # In LIST-context it returns the relevant parameters.
    my ($chi, $df, $p) = $bart->bartlett_mva;

DESCRIPTION

Bartlett's test is used to test if k samples have equal variances. This multivariate form tests for homogeneity of the variance-covariance matrices across samples. Some statistical tests assume such homogeneity across groups or samples. This test allows you to check that assumption. See http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda357.htm.

DEPENDENCIES

'Statistics::MVA' => '0.0.1', 'Carp' => '1.08', 'Math::Cephes' => '0.47', 'Statistics::Distributions' => '1.02',

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

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AUTHOR

Daniel S. T. Hughes <dsth@cantab.net>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010, Daniel S. T. Hughes <dsth@cantab.net>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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