Dear David, no, distrTEst won't help. It has a different intention.
We are currently working on a new package "distrMod" (cf. https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/distrmod/) which sometime might have such a functionality. Best, Matthias David Bickel wrote: > Is there any automatic mechanism for extracting a likelihood or test > statistic distribution (PDF or CDF) from an object of class "htest" or > from another object of a general class encoding a hypothesis test > result? > > I would like to have a function that takes "x", an object of class > "htest", as its only argument and that returns the likelihood or test > statistic distribution that was used to compute the p-value. It seems > the only way to write such a function is to manually assign each test > its statistic's distribution, e.g., like this: > > FUN <- if(names(x$statistic) == "t") > dt > else if(names(x$statistic) == "X-squared") > dchisq > # etc. > > Is there a general S3 or S4 class other than "htest" that would better > accommodate such extraction of distributions or likelihoods? I would > also appreciate any suggestions for strategies or contributed packages > that may facilitate automation. For example, would the "distrTEst" > package help? > > David > > ______________________________ > David R. Bickel > Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology > http://www.oisb.ca/members.htm > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
