wilcoxonPS function

Grissom and Kim's Probability of Superiority (PS)

Calculates Grissom and Kim's Probability of Superiority (PS) with confidence intervals by bootstrap

wilcoxonPS(
  formula = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  x = NULL,
  y = NULL,
  ci = FALSE,
  conf = 0.95,
  type = "perc",
  R = 1000,
  histogram = FALSE,
  digits = 3,
  reportIncomplete = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

• formula: A formula indicating the response variable and the independent variable. e.g. y ~ group.
• data: The data frame to use.
• x: If no formula is given, the response variable for one group.
• y: The response variable for the other group.
• ci: If TRUE, returns confidence intervals by bootstrap. May be slow.
• conf: The level for the confidence interval.
• type: The type of confidence interval to use. Can be any of "norm", "basic", "perc", or "bca". Passed to boot.ci.
• R: The number of replications to use for bootstrap.
• histogram: If TRUE, produces a histogram of bootstrapped values.
• digits: The number of significant digits in the output.
• reportIncomplete: If FALSE (the default), NA will be reported in cases where there are instances of the calculation of the statistic failing during the bootstrap procedure.
• verbose: If TRUE, reports the proportion of ties and the proportions of (Ya > Yb) and (Ya < Yb).
• ...: Additional arguments, not used.

Returns

A single statistic, PS. Or a small data frame consisting of PS, and the lower and upper confidence limits.

Details

PS is an effect size statistic appropriate in cases where a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test might be used. It ranges from 0 to 1, with 0.5 indicating stochastic equality, and 1 indicating that the first group dominates the second.

PS is defined as P(Ya > Yb), with no provision made for tied values across groups.

If there are no tied values, PS will be equal to VDA.

The input should include either formula and data; or x, and y. If there are more than two groups, only the first two groups are used.

Currently, the function makes no provisions for NA

values in the data. It is recommended that NAs be removed beforehand.

When the data in the first group are greater than in the second group, PS is greater than 0.5. When the data in the second group are greater than in the first group, PS is less than 0.5.

Be cautious with this interpretation, as R will alphabetize groups in the formula interface if the grouping variable is not already a factor.

When PS is close to 0 or close to 1, or with small sample size, the confidence intervals determined by this method may not be reliable, or the procedure may fail.

Note

The parsing of the formula is simplistic. The first variable on the left side is used as the measurement variable. The first variable on the right side is used for the grouping variable.

Examples

data(Catbus)
wilcoxonPS(Steps ~ Gender, data=Catbus, verbose=TRUE)

References

Grissom, R.J. and J.J. Kim. 2012. Effect Sizes for Research. 2nd ed. Routledge, New York.

https://rcompanion.org/handbook/F_04.html

See Also

cliffDelta, vda

Author(s)

Salvatore Mangiafico, mangiafico@njaes.rutgers.edu