PMCMR News

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 4.4

• Function posthoc.durbin.test was set to depricated.

• All other functions were defunct.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 4.1

MODIFICATIONS

• In posthoc.kruskal.nemenyi.test and posthoc.friedman.nemenyi.test the df was set from 1000000 to Inf for calculating p-values of Tukey's distribution.

• The vignette was checked for Typos and modified.

• The reported chi-square statistics in posthoc.kruskal.nemenyi.test are now corrected for ties.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 4.0

NEW FEATURES

• The function get.pvalues was included to extract the p-values from a PMCMR object or a pairwise.htest object.It can be further processed with multcompLetters from the package multcompView to find and indicate homogeneous groups for a given level of significance.

• The functions durbin.test and posthoc.durbin.test were added to test wether k treatments in a two-way balanced incomplete block design have identical effects.

• The function posthoc.quade.test was added for multiple pairwise comparisons of rank sums for unreplicated blocked data.

• The Jonckheere-Terpstrata test, jonckheere.test, was added as an omnibus test for testing k independent samples against ordered alternatives.

• A print.PMCMR and summary.PMCMR was added.

• The keyword nonparametric was inserted into each .Rd file.

BUGFIXES

• Title in .Rd-file of vanWaerden.test was changed into van der Waerden's normal scores test.

• The formula method for posthoc.friedman.conover.test was disabled, because it does not work.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 3.0

NEW FEATURES

• The van der Waerden normal scores test, vanWaerden.test, as an omnibus test for testing k independent samples for homogeneity was added to the package.

• The post-hoc test of van der Waerden, posthoc.vanWaerden.test, for multiple comparisons following a significant omnibus test was added to the package.

• The Conover-test, posthoc.friedman.conover.test, for multiple comparisons following a Friedman test was added to the package.

• The Conover-test, posthoc.kruskal.conover.test, for multiple comparisons following a Kruskal test was added to the package.

• The NAMSPACE file, VIGNETTE and the .Rd files were updated accordingly.

BUGFIXES

• posthoc.kruskal.dunn.test and dunn.test.control were corrected to calculate p-values for a two-sided test.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 2.0

NEW FEATURES

• The Dunn-test, posthoc.kruskal.dunn.test, for multiple comparisons of rank sums was added to the package. Likewise, a Dunn-test for multiple comparisons with one control, dunn.test.control, was added. The NAMSPACE file, VIGNETTE and the .Rd files were updated accordingly.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 1.3

BUGFIXES

• The examples in the LaTeX document (vignette) were corrected. The help pages were extended.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 1.2

BUGFIXES

• The LaTeX document (vignette) was corrected to avoid compilation errors.

CHANGES IN PMCMR VERSION 1.1

NEW FEATURES

• A formula method posthoc.kruskal.nemenyi.test.formula() and posthoc.friedman.nemenyi.formula() was added to the code in a similar fashion as it is coded in kruskal.test and friedman.test of the package stats. The NAMSPACE file and the .Rd files were updated accordingly.