An R Package for Multivariate Hypothesis Tests: MVTests

Year 2019, Volume: 14 Issue: 4, 132 - 138, 26.10.2019

Hasan Bulut

Abstract

In
recent years, the R program is widely used for statistical analysis. Because
the R program is open source software, it may contain the R packages developed
by users. This study aims to promote an R package entitled MVTests, which
consists of multivariate hypothesis tests. By using this package, one performs
hypothesis tests, which are used widely and related to each other, such as
One-Way MANOVA, multivariate normality tests, Box-M test. In this study, the
theoretical background of these tests and their applications with MVTests
package are given. Users test easily to their data with MVTests package.
Therefore, it is believed that this study is a helpful tool for researchers and
users.

Keywords

MVTests, Box-M, MANOVA, Hotelling T Square, Multivariate Normality Test

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