PMCMR Quick Reference Guide

Thorsten Pohlert

2024-09-08

Introduction

In PMCMRplus function names have changed from period.separated in PMCMR (<= 4.1) to lowerCamelCase.

One factorial layout

Omnibus tests

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
kruskalTest – Kruskal-Wallis test
vanWaerdenTest vanWaerden.Test van der Waerden’s normal scores test
adKSampleTest – Anderson-Darling k-Sample Test
bwsKSampleTest – Murakami k-Sample BWS normal Test
normalScoresTest – Lu-Smith Normal Score Test

Many-to-One comparisons

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
dunnettTest – Dunnett’s test for multiple comparisons with one control
ManyOneUTest – Multiple comparisons with one control (multiple U-test)
kwManyOneConoverTest – Pairwise Test for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with one control (Conover’s-Test)
kwManyOneDunnTest dunn.test.control Pairwise Test for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with one control (Dunn’s-Test)
kwManyOneNdwTest – Pairwise Test for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with one control (Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe Test)
tamhaneDunnettTest – Tamhane-Dunnett’s test for multiple comparisons with one control
vanWaerdenManyOneTest – Multiple Comparisons of normal scores (van der Waerden test)
adManyOneTest – Anderson-Darling Many-To-One Comparison Test
bwsManyOneTest – BWS Many-To-One Comparison Test

Trend tests

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
cuzickTest – Cuzick test for testing independent samples against ordered alternatives
johnsonTest – Johnson-Mehrotra test for testing independent samples against ordered alternatives
jonckheereTest jonckheere.test Jonckheere-Terpstra test for testing k independent samples against ordered alternatives
leTest – Le’s test for testing k independent samples against ordered alternatives
spearmanTest – Spearman test for testing k independent samples against ordered alternatives
bwsTrendTest – Murakami’s BWS Trend Test
chackoTest – Chacko’s Test

All-pairs comparisons

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
dscfAllPairsTest – Multiple Comparisons after Dwass, Steele, Critchlow and Fligner
dunnettT3Test – Dunnett’s T3 test for multiple comparisons with unequal variances
gamesHowellTest – Games-Howel test for multiple comparisons with unequal variances
kwAllPairsConoverTest posthoc.kruskal.conover.test Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums (Conover’s-Test)
kwAllPairsDunnTest posthoc.kruskal.dunn.test Pairwise Test for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums (Dunn’s-Test)
kwAllPairsNemenyiTest posthoc.kruskal.nemenyi.test Pairwise Test for Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums (Nemenyi-Tests)
lsdTest – Least significant difference test for multiple comparisons
scheffeTest – Scheffe’s test for multiple comparisons
tamhaneT2Test – Tamhane’s T2 test for multiple comparisons with unequal variances
tukeyTest – Tukey’s test for multiple comparisons
uryWigginsHochbergTest – Ury, Wiggins, Hochberg test for multiple comparisons with unequal variances
vanWaerdenAllPairsTest posthoc.vanWaerden.test Multiple Comparisons of normal scores (van der Waerden test)
adAllPairsTest – Anderson-Darling All-Pairs Comparison Test
bwsAllPairsTest – BWS All-Pairs Comparison Test

Two factorial layout

Omnibus tests

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
durbinTest durbin.test Durbin’s test for two-way balanced incomplete block design
friedmanTest – Friedman Test
skillingsMackTest – Skillings-Mack Test
GoreTest – Gore Test

Many-to-One comparisons

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
frdManyOneDemsarTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with a Control for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Demsar-Test)
frdManyOneExactTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with a control for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Exact-Test)
frdManyOneNemenyiTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums with a Control for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Nemenyi-Test)

Trend test

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
pageTest – Page Rank Sum Test

All-pairs comparisons

FN in PMCMRplus PMCMR v4.1 Meaning
durbinAllPairsTest posthoc.durbin.test Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums (Durbin’s test)
frdAllPairsConoverTest posthoc.friedman.conover.test Multiple Comparisons of Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Conover-Test)
frdAllPairsExactTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Exact-Test)
frdAllPairsMillerTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Miller-Test)
frdAllPairsNemenyiTest posthoc.friedman.nemenyi.test Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Nemenyi-Test)
frdAllPairsSiegelTest – Multiple Comparisons of Mean Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Siegel-Test)
quadeAllPairsTest posthoc.quade.test Multiple Comparisons of Rank Sums for Unreplicated Blocked Data (Quade multiple comparison test)