Multivariate tests
Hotelling's $T^2$ test
OneSampleHotellingT2Test(X::AbstractMatrix, μ₀=<zero vector>)Perform a one sample Hotelling's $T^2$ test of the hypothesis that the vector of column means of X is equal to μ₀.
OneSampleHotellingT2Test(X::AbstractMatrix, Y::AbstractMatrix, μ₀=<zero vector>)Perform a paired Hotelling's $T^2$ test of the hypothesis that the vector of mean column differences between X and Y is equal to μ₀.
EqualCovHotellingT2Test(X::AbstractMatrix, Y::AbstractMatrix)Perform a two sample Hotelling's $T^2$ test of the hypothesis that the difference in the mean vectors of X and Y is zero, assuming that X and Y have equal covariance matrices.
UnequalCovHotellingT2Test(X::AbstractMatrix, Y::AbstractMatrix)Perform a two sample Hotelling's $T^2$ test of the hypothesis that the difference in the mean vectors of X and Y is zero, without assuming that X and Y have equal covariance matrices.
Equality of covariance matrices
Bartlett's test for equality of two covariance matrices is provided. This is equivalent to Box's $M$-test for two groups.
HypothesisTests.BartlettTest — Type.BartlettTest(X::AbstractMatrix, Y::AbstractMatrix)Perform Bartlett's test of the hypothesis that the covariance matrices of X and Y are equal.
Bartlett's test is sensitive to departures from multivariate normality.
Partial correlation test
HypothesisTests.CorrelationTest — Type.CorrelationTest(x, y, Z)Perform a t-test for the hypothesis that $\text{Cor}(x,y|Z=z) = 0$, i.e. the partial correlation of vectors x and y given the matrix Z is zero.
Implements pvalue for the t-test. Implements confint using an approximate confidence interval based on Fisher's $z$-transform.
See also partialcor from StatsBase.
External resources
- Partial correlation on Wikipedia (for the construction of the confidence interval)
- Section testing using Student's t-distribution from Pearson correlation coefficient on Wikipedia
- K.J. Levy and S.C. Narula (1978): Testing Hypotheses concerning Partial Correlations: Some Methods and Discussion. International Statistical Review 46(2).