statsmodels.stats.rates.test_poisson_2indep¶
- statsmodels.stats.rates.test_poisson_2indep(count1, exposure1, count2, exposure2, ratio_null=1, method='score', alternative='two-sided', etest_kwds=None)[source]¶
test for ratio of two sample Poisson intensities
If the two Poisson rates are g1 and g2, then the Null hypothesis is
H0: g1 / g2 = ratio_null
against one of the following alternatives
H1_2-sided: g1 / g2 != ratio_null
H1_larger: g1 / g2 > ratio_null
H1_smaller: g1 / g2 < ratio_null
- Parameters:
- count1
int
Number of events in first sample.
- exposure1
float
Total exposure (time * subjects) in first sample.
- count2
int
Number of events in second sample.
- exposure2
float
Total exposure (time * subjects) in second sample.
- ratio: float
ratio of the two Poisson rates under the Null hypothesis. Default is 1.
- method
str
Method for the test statistic and the p-value. Defaults to ‘score’. Current Methods are based on Gu et. al 2008. Implemented are ‘wald’, ‘score’ and ‘sqrt’ based asymptotic normal distribution, and the exact conditional test ‘exact-cond’, and its mid-point version ‘cond-midp’. method=’etest’ and method=’etest-wald’ provide pvalues from etest_poisson_2indep using score or wald statistic respectively. see Notes.
- alternative
str
The alternative hypothesis, H1, has to be one of the following
‘two-sided’: H1: ratio of rates is not equal to ratio_null (default)
‘larger’ : H1: ratio of rates is larger than ratio_null
‘smaller’ : H1: ratio of rates is smaller than ratio_null
- etest_kwds: dictionary
Additional parameters to be passed to the etest_poisson_2indep function, namely ygrid.
- count1
- Returns:
- results
instance
of
HolderTuple
class
The two main attributes are test statistic statistic and p-value pvalue.
- results
See also
Notes
‘wald’: method W1A, wald test, variance based on separate estimates
‘score’: method W2A, score test, variance based on estimate under Null
‘wald-log’: W3A
‘score-log’ W4A
‘sqrt’: W5A, based on variance stabilizing square root transformation
‘exact-cond’: exact conditional test based on binomial distribution
‘cond-midp’: midpoint-pvalue of exact conditional test
‘etest’: etest with score test statistic
‘etest-wald’: etest with wald test statistic
References
Gu, Ng, Tang, Schucany 2008: Testing the Ratio of Two Poisson Rates, Biometrical Journal 50 (2008) 2, 2008