Letter summary of similarities and differences
multcompLetters.RdConvert a logical vector or a vector of p-values or a correlation or distance matrix into a character-based display in which common characters identify levels or groups that are not significantly different. Designed for use with the output of functions like TukeyHSD, diststats, simint, simtest, csimint, csimtestmultcomp, friedmanmc, kruskalmcpgirmess.
Usage
multcompLetters(
x,
compare = "<",
threshold = 0.05,
Letters = c(letters, LETTERS, "."),
reversed = FALSE
)
multcompLetters2(formula, x, data, ...)
multcompLetters3(z, y, x, data, ...)
multcompLetters4(object, comp, ...)Arguments
- x
One of the following: (1) A square, symmetric matrix with row names. (2) A vector with hyphenated names, which identify individual items or factor levels after "strsplit". (3) An object of class "dist". If x (or x[1]) is not already of class "logical", it is replaced with do.call(compare, list(x, threshold)), which by default converts numbers (typically p-values) less than 0.05 to TRUE and everything else to FALSE. If x is a matrix, its diagonal must be or must convert to FALSE.
- compare
function or binary operator; not used if class(x) is "logical".
- threshold
Second (reference) argument to "compare".
- Letters
Vector of distinct characters (or character strings) used to connect levels that are not significantly different. They should be recognizable when concatenated. The last element of "Letters" is used as a prefix for a reuse of "Letters" if more are needed than are provided. For example, with the default "Letters", if 53 distinct connection columns are required, they will be "a", ..., "z", "A", ..., "Z", and ".a". If 54 are required, the last one will be ".b". If 105 are required, the last one will be "..a", etc. (If the algorithm generates that many distinct groups, the display may be too busy to be useful, but the algorithm shouldn't break.)
- reversed
A logical value indicating whether the order of the letters should be reversed. Defaults to FALSE.
- formula
The formula used to make the test (lm, aov, glm, etc.). Like y ~ x.
- data
Data used to make the test.
- ...
Extra arguments passed to multcompLetters.
- z
Categorical variables used in the test.
- y
Value of the response variable.
- object
An object of class aov or lm for the time being.
- comp
A object with multiple comparison or a function name to perform a multiple comparison.
Value
An object of class 'multcompLetters', which is a list with the following components:
- Letters
character vector with names = the names of the levels or groups compared and with values = character strings in which common values of the function argument "Letters" identify levels or groups that are not significantly different (or more precisely for which the corresponding element of "x" was FALSE or was converted to FALSE by "compare").
- monospacedLetters
Same as "Letters" but with spaces so the individual grouping letters will line up with a monospaced type font.
- LetterMatrix
Logical matrix with one row for each level compared and one column for each "Letter" in the "letter-based representation". The output component "Letters" is obtained by concatenating the column names of all columns with TRUE in that row.
multcompLetters4 will return a named
list with the terms containing a object of class 'multcompLetters' as
produced by multcompLetters.
Details
Produces a "Letter-Based Representation of All- Pairwise Comparisons" as
described by Piepho (2004). (The present algorithm does NOT perform his
"sweeping" step.) multcompLettersx are wrapper of multcompLetters
that will reorder the levels of the data so that the letters appear in a
descending order of the mean. mulcompletters3 is similar to
multcompletters2 except that it uses vector names to separate and the
later has an formula interface. multcompLetters4 will take a aov or
lm object and a comparison test and will produce all the letters for the
terms and interactions.
Functions
multcompLetters2():multcompLetters3(): create a compact letters display and order the lettersmultcompLetters4(): create a compact letters display using a aov object