Message-ID: <CA+8X3fWHfcVtTT3m40yHKDnsE2gADmjaju3KNjfkSrCqdoL9og@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2016-04-04T22:08:24Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: Fligner-Killeen test on binary data
In-Reply-To: <009301d18e57$1b08b730$511a2590$@uzh.ch>
Hi emeline,
I think there may be a minor language problem. If you mean the
"variation" rather than the "variance" in survival, you may simply
want a test of proportions.
Jim
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:48 PM, emeline mourocq <emeline.mourocq at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I investigate survival until the following year (0,1) and I wish to test if
> the variance in survival for two or more groups are significantly different
> from each other.
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> I read that the Fligner-Killeen test is a non-parametric test which is very
> robust against departures from normality but is it correct (valuable
> technique for publication) to use it on binary data?
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> In other words, can I use
> fligner.test(survival~categorical_predictor,data=mydata) when survival is
> binary (0,1)?
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> Best regards
>
> Emeline
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