Implementing a class of permutation tests: The coin package

Torsten Hothorn, Kurt Hornik, Mark A. van de Wiel, Achim Zeileis

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Abstract

The R package coin implements a unified approach to permutation tests providing a huge class of independence tests for nominal, ordered, numeric, and censored data as well as multivariate data at mixed scales. Based on a rich and flexible conceptual framework that embeds different permutation test procedures into a common theory, a computational framework is established in coin that likewise embeds the corresponding R functionality in a common S4 class structure with associated generic functions. As a consequence, the computational tools in coin inherit the flexibility of the underlying theory and conditional inference functions for important special cases can be set up easily. Conditional versions of classical tests - such as tests for location and scale problems in two or more samples, independence in two- or three-way contingency tables, or association problems for censored, ordered categorical or multivariate data - can be easily be implemented as special cases using this computational toolbox by choosing appropriate transformations of the observations. The paper gives a detailed exposition of both the internal structure of the package and the provided user interfaces.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ErscheinungsortVienna
HerausgeberDepartment of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
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PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juli 2007

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ReiheResearch Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics
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