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JuliaStats / HypothesisTests.jl

Hypothesis tests for Julia
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Build up a type hierarchy of hypothesis tests? #1

Open johnmyleswhite opened 11 years ago

johnmyleswhite commented 11 years ago

For this package it may not be that useful, but perhaps there's still value in having a hierarchy of hypothesis tests. Something like:

abstract HypothesisTest
abstract ParametricTest <: HypothesisTest
abstract NonparametricTest <: HypothesisTest

There may not be that much use to this, but it's interesting to me as a potential way to organize the suite of hypothesis tests I'd like to see Julia give access to.

simonster commented 11 years ago

I don't see any harm in this, but also don't see how you'd actually make use of the hierarchy. Are there cases where one would want to specialize on parametric/nonparametric test types? Single inheritance also imposes some limitations on the use of this as a means of categorizing tests. For example, we could also have abstract types like TwoSampleTest, PairedDifferenceTest, GoodnessOfFitTest, etc., but these encompass both parametric and non-parametric tests.

azev77 commented 4 years ago

@johnmyleswhite @simonster Suppose I wanna conduct a goodness of fit test. There exist many different tests w/ different properties, some have better power, while others have better size... subtypes(GoodnessOfFitTest) can help me automatically find all relevant tests

More generally maybe it could be good to have a test() or HT() function similar to fit?
This can allow something like:

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