[R] R equivalent of SAS Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel tests?

David Freedman 3.14david at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 18:58:09 CET 2009


How about 'cmh_test' in the coin package?

>From the PDF: The null hypothesis of the independence of y and x is tested,
block defines an optional factor for stratification. chisq_test implements
Pearson’s chi-squared test, cmh_test the Cochran-Mantel-Haenzsel test and
lbl_test the linear-by-linear association test for ordered data.

David Freedman



Michael Friendly wrote:
> 
> In SAS, for a two-way (or 3-way, stratified) table, the CMH option in 
> SAS PROC FREQ gives
> 3 tests that take ordinality of the factors into account, for both 
> variables, just the column variable
> or neither.   Is there an equivalent in R?
> The mantelhaen.test in stats gives something quite different (a test of 
> conditional independence for
> *nominal* factors in a 3-way table).
> 
> e.g. I'd like to reproduce:
> *-- CMH tests;
> proc freq data=sexfun order=data;
>   weight count;
>   tables husband * wife / cmh chisq nocol norow;
>   run;
> 
>                               The FREQ Procedure
>                      Summary Statistics for Husband by Wife
>           Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Statistics (Based on Table Scores)
> 
>         Statistic    Alternative Hypothesis    DF       Value      Prob
> 
>             1        Nonzero Correlation        1     10.0142    0.0016
>             2        Row Mean Scores Differ     3     12.5681    0.0057
>             3        General Association        9     16.7689    0.0525
> 
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