PMCMRplus News

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.12 (2024-09-07

OTHER CHANGES

• Package anchors for Rd \link{} targets were provided (issue detected by CRAN check ‘Rd cross references’).

• Changed http to https for content that is marked ‘Moved Permanently’.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.11 (2023-12-28

NEW FEATURES

• The functions medianTest and medianAllPairsTest, that perform Brown-Mood Median Test, were implemented.

OTHER CHANGES

• Function adKSampleTest was refactored in order to save memory.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.10 (2023-12-10)

BUG FIXES

• Function frdAllPairsConoverTest internally calculated wrong Friedmans test statistics that lead to wrong pairwise tests statistics and p-values. This was fixed.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.9 (2023-11-25)

BUG FIXES

• Function skillingsMackTest only worked as expected, if NA values were explicitly given in vectors to match the size of the matrix. This has been extended to work with some sort of 'sparse matrices'.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.8 (2023-10-09)

OTHER CHANGES

• Data type caste from integer to double precision in Fortran source was changed in order to allow portability.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.7 (2023-07-03)

BUG FIXES

• The iterative procedure that was included in function power.williams.test occassionally failled to return reasonable values for n, when power and other parameters were given (Instead, it returned the given upper limit). The procedure was replaced with the analytical expression as given in the PASS manual p. 595-2.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.6 (2022-08-17)

NEW FEATURES

• Function chenJanTest was added. Step-down p-adjustment according to Chen (1999) was added for functions chenTest and chenJanTest.

BUG FIXES

• Function frdHouseTest was fixed in such a way that y, groups and blocks can be passed as vectors.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.5 (2022-07-10)

NEW FEATURES

• Functions chenTest, Dunnett, frdHouseTest, power.dunnett.test, power.tukey.test and power.williams.test were added.

OTHER CHANGES

• Code in init.c was re-written based on tools::package_native_routine_registration_skeleton.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.4 (2022-04-07)

BUG FIX

• Function dscfAllPairsTest always returned NA. This has been fixed.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.3 (2021-11-13)

BUG FIX

• Function manyOneUTest always returned NA. This has been fixed.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.2 (2021-10-12)

OTHER CHANGES

• An order restriction for factor levels was implemented in the function jonckheereTest, which allows an un-sorted input.

• The Rd-files were updated for all trend-test procedures with a note on how to label the factor levels from zero-dose control to highest dose level.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.1 (2021-09-21)

BUGFIX

• The function manyOneUTest was corrected in order to become workable.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.9.0 (2021-01-12)

NEW FEATURES

• The function mrrTest to conduct Madhava Rao-Raghunath exact symmetry test was added.

• The functions hayterStoneTest, hsAllPairsTest and NPMTest were extended for calculating asymptotic p-values with the code of pHayStonLSA of the package NSM3.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.8.0 (2020-12-06)

NEW FEATURES

• The Shan-Young-Kang test for testing against ordered alternatives was implemented in function shanTest.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.7.1 (2020-11-29)

BUGFIX

• The function uryWigginsHochbergTest was corrected in order to return the two-tailed p-value.

OTHER CHANGES

• In the demo algae the step-down trend examples were replaced with the corresponding novel function stepDownTrendTest.

• The method for class "aov" was implemented for the function williamsTest.

• The function toTidy was extended for functions of two-way rank ANOVA.

• Several Rd files were updated and extended.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.7.0 (2020-10-29)

NEW FEATURES

• The functions hayterStoneTest and hsAllPairsTest were implemented.

• The function toTidy was implemented based on a valuable recommendation of Indrajeet Patil.

• The method for class "aov" was implemented for the functions osrtTest and MTest.

• The function stepDownTrendTest as well as corresponding print and summary methods were implemented to perform step-down tren test procedures.

• the functions hayterStoneTest, hsAllPairsTest and NPMTest were extended for method = "boot", with which an asymetric permutation test is conducted and p-values are returned.

OTHER CHANGES

• The function chaAllPairsNashimotoTest was enhanced for NPT'-test, where p-values are calculated from the standard normal distribution and NPY'-test, where the statistic(s) are compared with ciritical h-values.

• The function chackoTest was extended for alternative = c("greater","less").

• The Rd-files of several functions were revised.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.6.1 (2020-10-21)

NEW FEATURES

• The flignerWolfeTest and chackoTest were implemented in the function powerOneWayTest.

BUGFIX

• The functions MTest and osrtTest were corrected in such a way, that estimated statistics are compared with critical h-values from an internal look-up table.

• The function chaAllPairsNashimotoTest was corrected for the NPM-test. p-values are now calculated from the standard normal distribution.

OTHER CHANGES

• A new generic method print.osrt and summary.osrt was coded for all functions that use critical values for decisions, i.e. osrtTest, MTest, steelTest, williamsTest and shirleyWilliamsTest. Other print and summary methods were removed.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.6.0 (2020-10-13)

NEW FEATURES

• The Fligner-Wolfe test was implemented in function flignerWolfeTest.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.5.1 (2020-09-26)

BUGFIX

• kwManyOneNdwTest was corrected for directed hypothesis testing.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.5.0 (2020-09-09)

NEW FEATURES

• S3 method for class‘aov’ was added for tukeyTest, gamesHowellTest, lsdTest, tamhaneT2Test, uryWigginsHochbergTest, dunnettT3Test, snkTest, scheffeTest, dunnettTest, tamhaneDunnettTest and welchManyOneTTest.

• Updated concept-tag in Rd files.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.4.4

OTHER CHANGES

• The examples in kruskalTest, adKSampleTest and bwsKSampleTest were changed for compatibility with the upcoming ‘stringsAsFactors = FALSE’ default in R (4.0.0).

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.4.3

OTHER CHANGES

• The names for the ‘method’ were corrected for adAllPairsTest and bwsAllPairsTest.

• The example in adKSampleTest was corrected.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.4.2

NEW FEATURES

• The S3 method for class ‘formula’ was added for frdAllPairsNemenyiTest.

OTHER CHANGES

• The novel internal function frdRanks was added for consistent Friedman-type ranking.

BUGFIXES

• Results of all frd[.]Test and quadeAllPairsTest depended on the sequential order of groups and blocks. This has been fixed. Thanks to Jakob Richter, email 2019-10-15.

• The function frdManyOneExactTest was corrected towards ‘alternative == "two.sided"’ only.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.4.1

NEW FEATURES

• The function hartleyTest for performing Hartley's Maximum F-Ratio Test of Homogeneity of Variances was added.

OTHER CHANGES

• The demo trout.R was updated.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.4.0

NEW FEATURES

• The function siegelTukeyTest for performing the Siegel-Tukey rank dispersion test was added.

• The function GSTTest for performing the Generalized Siegel-Tukey Test for rank dispersion was added.

BUGFIXES

• The names of columns and rows of the lower triangle matrix in any of the functions frdAllPairs*, frdManyOne* and quadeAllPairsTest were occasionally wrong. The bug only appeared, if y, group, block were provided as vectors and the group vector was sorted. This bug has been fixed.

OTHER CHANGES

• Example of Rd file of kruskalTest was modified to show equality of Conover's F and one-way ANOVA F-Test with ranks.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.3.0

NEW FEATURES

• The function snkTest for performing the Student-Newman-Keuls test was added.

• The funtion duncanTest for performing the Duncan's (new) multiple range test was added.

• The funtion welchManyOneTTest for performing many-to-one comparisons with Welch's t-test was added. Likewise, welchManyOneTTest was added as test in function powerMCtests

• The funtion steelTest including print and summary S3-methods for applying Steel's Many-to-One Rank Test was added.

• The function tamhaneT2Test was extended for performing Tamhane's extended T2' test as well. Thanks to Sirio Bolaños.

BUGFIXES

• Several Rd files were corrected (e.g. links to other man files, corrected calls to functions in examples section)

• The function tamhaneT2Test was corrected in order to compute the two-tailed p-value with Sidaks p-adjustment using m = k(k-1)/2.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.2.0

NEW FEATURES

• The function shirleyWilliamsTest was extended for alternatives less and greater using a look-up table for critical Williams-t values including print and summary methods.

BUGFIXES

• Links in Rd file of bwsManyOneTest were corrected.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.1.0

NEW FEATURES

• The function williamsTest including print and summary methods were added.

CHANGES IN PMCMRPLUS VERSION 1.0.1

BUGFIXES

• Misspelled author name Terpstra was corrected in function jonckheereTest and corresponding Rd file.

• Reference in the title of Rd files for functions mandelhTest and mandelkTest were corrected.