Dunnett's Test
A Dunnett's Test is a post-hoc multiple comparison procedure that compares each number of treatment with a single control group.
- Context:
- It is a procedure developed by Charles Dunnet (1995).
- See: Multiple Comparisons Problem, Statistical Test, Student's t-Test.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnett's_test Retrieved 2016-08-21
- In statistics, Dunnett's test is a multiple comparison procedure developed by Canadian statistician Charles Dunnett to compare each of a number of treatments with a single control. Multiple comparisons to a control are also referred to as many-to-one comparisons.
(...)Dunnett's test is performed by computing a Student's t-statistic for each experimental, or treatment, group where the statistic compares the treatment group to a single control group. Since each comparison has the same control in common, the procedure incorporates the dependencies between these comparisons. In particular, the t-statistics are all derived from the same estimate of the error variance which is obtained by pooling the sums of squares for error across all (treatment and control) groups. The formal test statistic for Dunnett's test is either the largest in absolute value of these t-statistics (if a two-tailed test is required), or the most negative or most positive of the t-statistics (if a one-tailed test is required).
- In statistics, Dunnett's test is a multiple comparison procedure developed by Canadian statistician Charles Dunnett to compare each of a number of treatments with a single control. Multiple comparisons to a control are also referred to as many-to-one comparisons.
- In Dunnett's test we can use a common table of critical values, but more flexible options are nowadays readily available in many statistics packages such as R. The critical values for any given percentage point depend on: whether a one- or- two-tailed test is performed; the number of groups being compared; the overall number of trials.